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Shirley Jackson

    December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965

    Shirley Jackson was an influential American author whose work has garnered increasing attention from literary critics. Her short story "The Lottery" suggests a deeply unsettling underside to seemingly idyllic small-town America. Jackson herself avoided interviews and self-promotion, believing her books would speak for themselves. Her husband maintained that the darker elements of her work were not personal fantasies but intended to mirror humanity's Cold War-era fears and totalitarian anxieties.

    Shirley Jackson
    Let Me Tell You
    The missing girl
    Just an Ordinary Day
    Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (Loa #204): The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle /
    The Shirley Jackson Collection
    The Letters of Shirley Jackson
    • The Letters of Shirley Jackson

      • 672 pages
      • 24 hours of reading
      4.6(340)Add rating

      "Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction, and also features family photographs and Shirley's own illustrations. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to three months before her premature death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote, full of subversive wit, vivid imagination, and gorgeous prose. Jackson spent much of her adult life as a faculty wife and mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is the everyday: trips to the dentist and dream vacations, overdue taxes and broken Christmas tree bulbs, new dogs and new babies, fad diets and recipes for fudge. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. This intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson--writer and teacher, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife--up to the light"-- Provided by publisher

      The Letters of Shirley Jackson
    • The Shirley Jackson Collection

      A Library of America Boxed Set

      • 1732 pages
      • 61 hours of reading

      This deluxe collector's edition boxed set features the complete works of Shirley Jackson, showcasing all six of her novels alongside her renowned story collection, The Lottery, and an additional twenty-one stories. It offers a comprehensive look at Jackson's influential writing, making it a must-have for fans and collectors alike.

      The Shirley Jackson Collection
    • Just an Ordinary Day

      Just an Ordinary Day: Stories

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      4.2(1724)Add rating

      The narrative explores the extraordinary aspects of everyday life in mid-twentieth-century America, showcasing the depth and complexity of seemingly ordinary moments. With a keen eye for detail, the author captures the nuances of human experience, making it a resonant read for contemporary audiences. This work is celebrated as a significant contribution to literature, appealing to both new readers and those familiar with the author's unique style.

      Just an Ordinary Day
    • The missing girl

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Noveller. Malice, deception and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life

      The missing girl
    • Let Me Tell You

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.2(138)Add rating

      Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist

      Let Me Tell You
    • Just an Ordinary Day

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      4.2(50)Add rating

      Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid- twentieth-century common. 'Just an Ordinary Day' is a gift to a new generation. (San Francisco Chronicle) For Jackson devotees, as well as first- time readers, this is a feast ... A virtuoso collection (Publishers Weekly)

      Just an Ordinary Day
    • Monkey business.

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Tigers, snakes and crocodiles too. But who watches you when you're at the zoo? * Sharing a story or rhyme for only 10 minutes each day helps your child to enjoy practising her reading. * Books 1-8 of Read with Ladybird will help children who are just starting to learn to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

      Monkey business.
    • Raising Demons

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.1(244)Add rating

      In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting the seams of their first house, Jackson’s clan moves into a larger home. Of course, the chaos simply moves with them. A confrontation with the IRS, Little League, trumpet lessons, and enough clutter to bury her alive—Jackson spins them all into an indelible reminder that every bit as thrilling as a murderous family in a haunted house is a happy family in a new home.

      Raising Demons
    • LOTTERY & OTHER STORIES

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      4.1(168)Add rating

      One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. The Lottery and Other Stories, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range -- from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous -- and her power as a storyteller.

      LOTTERY & OTHER STORIES