About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker, A&P (story), A Home at the End of the World, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Brokeback Mountain (short story), Chef's House, Dip in the Pool, Edward the Conqueror, For Esme - with Love and Squalor, Franny and Zooey, Girl (poem), Hapworth 16, 1924, Harvey's Dream, Head Down (essay), Hiroshima (book), I See You Never, Junior Miss, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, Lost in Translation (poem), My Sister Eileen, My Son the Fanatic, New Yorkistan, On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, Parallel Play (memoir by Tim Page), Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, Signs and Symbols, Slight Rebellion off Madison, So Long, See You Tomorrow, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, Subsoil (short story), Teddy (story), That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French, The Book of Sand, The Death of Jack Hamilton, The Early Stories: 1953-1975, The End of Vandalism, The Enormous Radio, The Imposter (short story), The Laughing Man (short story), The Lottery, The Man in the Black Suit, The Muses Are Heard, The Namesake, The Orchid Thief, The Ponder Heart, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel), The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble, The Same Door, The Sea Around Us, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Unicorn in the Garden, The Unknown Citizen, The Way Up to Heaven, The Way We Live Now (short story), Through the Tunnel, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures. Excerpt: "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in the June 26, 1948 issue of The New Yorker. Written the same month it was published, it is ranked today as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature." It has been described as "a chilling tale of conformity gone mad." Response to...