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The lottery and other stories / Shirley Jackson.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
LP JACK	Large Print		Padstow .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781445836577 (pbk.)
Name	Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965
Title	The lottery and other stories / Shirley Jackson.
Published	Bath : Chivers, 2011, c1948
Description	366 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Notes	Standard print ed. originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, 1949.
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
Summary	The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost are chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story.
Subjects	Horror tales, American
Genre	Short stories
Genre	Horror fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Horror fiction . Horror tales, American . Short stories . See Also: Fiction . Ghost stories . Fiction . Authors: Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965 .