Books by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery and Other Stories; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1991)
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review 1: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a quick read (I had to choose the anthology because Goodreads doesn't list it as separate book). It is the story of two sisters who live a life of chosen seclusion with their invalid uncle following a family tragedy that changed them and the...
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review 1: I really enjoyed this story. It is also totally possible. Some people are totally set in their ways that they don't even know why they are doing it except the fact that it was what their ancestors did. I mean, people would stone their own parents or kids! I don't think something ...
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review 1: The Lottery is about a town who plays together and back then they played so that the winner could get crops and over the years the traditions have changes. Now the winner dies and the way you die is by picking peices of paper and the paper with the black dot is chosen by a oerson...
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review 1: This is a great collection of Jackson's more accessible work. I would have liked to see a book that collected Jackson's more hard to find novels- The Bird's Nest, Hangsaman, The Sundial, because I haven't been able to find those in the library or bookstores. However, I would reco...