The Lottery and Other Stories. Shirley Jackson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First ed
The Lottery and Other Stories. Shirley Jackson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First edition. Original dust jacket.The short story The Lottery is about a small New England village whose residents follow an annual rite in which they draw slips of paper until, finally, one of them is selected to be stoned to death. The story caused an immediate outcry when it was published, and gave Jackson literary notoriety. -- source link
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