"The Lottery"
Title | "The Lottery" |
Year for Search | 1948 |
Authors | Jackson, Shirley(1916-65) |
Secondary Title | The New Yorker |
Volume / Edition | 24.18 |
Pagination | 25-28 |
Date Published | June 26, 1948 |
ISBN Number | 9781598530728 |
ISSN Number | 0028-792X |
Keywords | Female author, US author |
Annotation | Dystopia in which each year every community chooses one person by lot to be stoned to death in the belief that this will make for a better year to come. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in her The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1949), 291-302; in ovels and Stories: The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Other Stories and Sketches. Ed Joyce Carol Oates (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 227-35; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 3-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 3-10; and illus. Garrett Grove. The New Yorker 96.21 (July 27, 2020): 50-53. |
Info Notes | A play is Brainerd Duffield (1917-79), The Lottery: A Play in One Act. Adapted from a story by Shirley Jackson. Chicago, IL: The Dramatic Publishing House, 1953. A graphic version is Miles Hyman. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation. New York: Hill & Wang, 2016. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | Female author (1916-65). |
Full Text | 1948 Jackson, Shirley (1916-65). “The Lottery.” The New Yorker 24.18 (June 26, 1948): 25-28. Rpt. in her The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1949), 291-302; in ovels and Stories: The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Other Stories and Sketches. Ed Joyce Carol Oates (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 227-35; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 3-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 3-10; and illus. Garrett Grove. The New Yorker 96.21 (July 27, 2020): 50-53. A play is Brainerd Duffield (1917-79), The Lottery: A Play in One Act. Adapted from a story by Shirley Jackson. Chicago, IL: The Dramatic Publishing House, 1953. A graphic version is see Miles Hyman. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation. New York: Hill & Wang, 2016. PSt Dystopia in which each year every community chooses one person by lot to be stoned to death in the belief that this will make for a better year to come. Female author. |