β Scribed by Shirley Jackson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
SUMMARY:
A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published inTheNew Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Widely anthologized, "The Lottery" is today considered a classic work of short fiction.
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### Review "The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood."--James Hilton, *Herald Tribune* "In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . .
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