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The lottery and other stories / Shirley Jackson.
LIBRA - Special PS3519.A392 L6 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965.
- Standardized Title:
- Lottery, or, The adventures of James Harris
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales, American.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Horror fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.
- Summary:
- Collection of twenty five stories which are representative of the author's work.
- Contents:
- The intoxicated
- The daemon lover
- Like mother used to make
- Trial by combat
- The villager
- My life with R.H. Macy
- The witch
- The renegade
- After you, my dear Alphonse
- Charles
- Afternoon in linen
- Flower garden
- Dorothy and my grandmother and the sailors
- Colloquy
- Elizabeth
- A fine old firm
- The dummy
- Seven types of ambiguity
- Come dance with me in Ireland
- Of course
- Pillar of salt
- Men with their big shoes
- The tooth
- Got a letter from Jimmy
- The lottery
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Originally published: The lottery or, The adventures of James Harris.
- OCLC:
- 52964577
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