Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel
A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker...
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A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history. In her gothic visions of small-town America, Jackson, the author of such masterworks as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, turns an ordinary world into a supernatural nightmare. This eclectic collection goes beyond her horror writing, revealing the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson's unfinished novel about the quirky inner life of a lonely widow, it features sixteen short stories and three lectures she delivered during her last years.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143107118 (0143107119)
Publish date: February 26th 2013
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
'Come Along with Me' is Jackson's unfinished novel. I absolutely love it anyway. Sparkling is the word that come to mind most about the narrator, a clairvoyant widow who lives in a boarding house. There's an old tv movie based on it that is equally charming.This edition also includes some short sto...
Though everything I've read about Shirley Jackson says the contrary, I can't help but think that she was very unhappy. Perhaps she was only sympathetic: all of her central characters (her family stories aside), all of her focus, seems to be inside the heads of uncertain women unhappy with their lot....
When Jackson writes about hauntings or murders you can pretend that you are reading about the unusual. You don't have that luxury with these short stories. Here the quotidian cruelties, the pettiness, the dishonesty and selfishness of ordinary people are not softened by the distracting gloss of insa...
15 years ago
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