All about Shirley.
The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 1991. ISBN: 0-374-51681-2
Fiction Contents
Jackson, Shirley,
I.
--The Intoxicated, 1949. (, 1949.)
--The Daemon Lover, 1949. (Woman's Home Companion, February, 1949.)
--Like Mother Used to Make, 1949. (, 1949.)
--Trial by Combat, 1944. (The New Yorker, December 16, 1944.)
--The Villager, 1944. (American Mercury, August, 1944.)
--My Life with R. H. Macy, 1949. (, 1949.)
II.
--The Witch, 1949. (, 1949.)
--The Renegade, 1948. (Harper's, November, 1948.)
--After You, My Dear Alphonse, 1943. (The New Yorker, January 16, 1943.)
--Charles, 1948. (Mademoiselle, July, 1948.)
--Afternoon in Linen, 1943. (The New Yorker, September 4, 1943.)
--Flower Garden, 1949. (, 1949.)
--Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors, 1949. (, 1949.)
III.
--Colloquy, 1944. (The New Yorker, August 5, 1944.)
--Elizabeth, 1949. (, 1949.)
--A Fine Old Firm, 1944. (The New Yorker, March 4, 1944.)
--The Dummy, 1949. (, 1949.)
--Seven Types of Ambiguity, 1948. * (Story, 1948.)
--Come Dance with Me in Ireland, 1943. (The New Yorker, May 15, 1943.)
IV.
--Of Course, 1949. (, 1949.)
--Pillar of Salt, 1948. (Mademoiselle, October, 1948.)
--Men with Their Big Shoes, 1947. (Yale Review, March, 1947.)
--The Tooth, 1949. (, 1949.)
--Got a Letter from Jimmy, 1949. (, 1949.)
--The Lottery, 1948. *** (The New Yorker, June 26, 1948.)
V.
--Epilogue, 1949. (poem) (, 1949.)
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Well, coulda been. I picture reading it in another place (college), but I think that's because the story takes place in the area my college was in. Whatever! I did reread it more recently, probably in the '80's. It's nasty, good.
I read it in the mid or late fifties, wherever I read it, WHAP!!
OK, good guess here, in some version of Short Stories of the Year...
I read virtually all of those, usually from the library.
I did The Lottery in Readers Theater once. "It isn't fair! It isn't right!"
Just finished "The Hours" -two thumbs up.
Just started, (on page 3 of) an Anne Tyler book. Forget the title. Don't want to walk across the house to get it.
I'm not really good on authors and titles. Just read, read, read. And keep on reading.
Sofia, your really thick college lit book....
Mine had very very thin pages and I simply could not keep awake.
Well, really, I should have gone to college diffenrently and not worked after school. I used to fall asleep over thick books routinely...
sigh.
I hate reading things that are assigned. That's why college was a bust for me!
feolola!!!!!
Whenever you get into it, I'd love to hear about your Tyler book. I've read almost all, and love them dearly. Love to hear your observations.
Really loved "The Hours." (movie). Must look up the book.
osso-- Wish I had done the college, family thing the other way around... Never finished school... If life allows, I plan to try to get through it finally. Did you finish?
That was part of it for me too, Fealola. Assignment = antagonism, no, not now. Much less analyze the damn things.
Though on my own I would analyze away.
We'll never mind, I wasn't meant to survive in English, though I adored reading.
Sofia, I thought The Hours was amazing on many different levels. Have not seen the film yet. But I will real soon.
I never finished college. So I'm a little intimidated by discussing literature, especially on this site! So many well versed intellegen tpeople who are really good at expressing themselves in writing.
My perspective of The Hours should be very pure. I'm not a good writer, never read Virginia Wolfe, never have seen the movie. Have a hard time putting thoughts into words, but, please read the book, Sophia, I'll be curious about what you think. It's an easy, fast read.
I'll let you know about Tyler. I'll really get into it sometime within the next few days. When I start a book I usually devour it pretty fast.
Fealola, I think of you as one of the smartest here, among, I admit, many smartees. And you aren't smart just cause you are good at initials, but otherwise. Don't frown on y'self, you're easily among peers. Ah, but who am I to say, dumb de dumb dumb....
Wait till you see my new initial guess. If I am correct I will just flip!!!
Anyway, the feeling is is mutual!
I'm almost finished now with "I, Victoria". The format is Queen Victoria writing shortly before her death, with running commentary about the events in her life.
It's getting sadder and sadder as the book progresses. We've been told dozens of times throughout the book that her husband, Prince Albert will die young. It's getting real sad as Albert's death approaches at the end of the book.
I think I'd like to read something happy next. Any suggestions?
uh oh, I knew I should know Ragni...
Hey Feolola.
Which Tyler book are you reading? How do you like it so far?
fealola wrote:I hate reading things that are assigned. That's why college was a bust for me!
Amen!
fealola wrote:I never finished college. So I'm a little intimidated by discussing literature, especially on this site! So many well versed intellegen tpeople who are really good at expressing themselves in writing.
It was my love for literature that brought me to finally begin taking courses at age 24....(yup, English major). My love for writing factored greatly into my decision to leave. I was told time and again that my non-class writing was far superior to that of my assignments and I finally realised that what I truly wanted was not a diploma but time to write on my own.
Re: Reader response journal
While there was quite a bit of reading involved for this course it was geared more toward writing. We were told at the beginning of the course that we were expected to keep a journal with a minimum of one entry for each assignment. It would be turned in for review twice during this time frame. Few guidelines were given. It was explained that this journal was more for the student than the teacher. Each entry could be as little as one sentence or as long as each student desired. We were encouraged to write multiple entries as we reread or re-analyzed pieces so we could work through our own analysis of a piece before discussing it in class. Our instructor stressed that she wanted our honesty in our journals. I wrote over 100 pages (typed, single spaced) in the journal, but being the avid reader that I am, this included any reaction to non-class reading that I did during the course.
Some entries were just a few lines of analysis or comment, others were full essays two and three pages long. To this day, when I finish reading a book and I'm trying to absorb all I've read, I still put my reaction in the journal. One entry that stands out in my mind is a reaction to Steinbeck's
Cannery Row. I didn't really enjoy the story itself while in the process of reading it, but as I wrote about it and processed it in my mind, I came to a better understanding (I believe) of Steinbeck's motivation.
Cannery Row remains a favorite.
Terry, thanks for letting us know about your reader response journal.
Terry, what you write makes great sense to me, and the journals make even more sense. Quiet for a while.
Well, I finished A Tale of Two Cities and Erewhon. In both A Tale of Two Cities and Nicholas Nickleby (which I am still trudging through), I found Dickens, while offering many salient social observations, to be frustrating in his refusal to develop a character beyond the bare minimum required for plot development. Erewhon was a decent social satire, with several memorable expositions, but was somewhat unfulfilling in that it read more like a political discourse than a novel.
I look forward to The Way of All Flesh, but for the meantime, in keeping with my essential 19th century reading, I've picked up Pride and Prejudice - my first Austen exposure.
Working on Boswells' The Kindness of Strangers: Child Abandonment in the Period 500-1300CE.
