【BOOK LOVERS专享191元】Shirley Jackson雪莉·杰克逊 Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s: The Road Through the Wall/Hangsaman/The Bird's Nest/The Sundial Library of America 美国文库 英文英语英语原版 权威版本 布面封皮琐线 圣经无酸纸薄而不透保存几个世纪不泛黄
The Road Through the Wall | Hangsaman | The Bird’s Nest | The Sundial | The Lottery | The Haunting of Hill House | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | other stories and sketches
TABLE OF CONTENTS The Road Through the Wall
Hangsaman
The Bird’s Nest
The Sundial
The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris The Intoxicated The Daemon Lover Like Mother Used to Make Trial by Combat The Villager My Life with R. H. Macy The Witch The Renegade After You, My Dear Alphonse Charles Afternoon in Linen Flower Garden Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors Colloquy Elizabeth A Fine Old Firm The Dummy Seven Types of Ambiguity Come Dance with Me in Ireland Of Course Pillar of Salt Men with Their Big Shoes The Tooth Got a Letter from Jimmy The Lottery Epilogue
The Haunting of Hill House
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Other Stories and Sketches
Uncollected Stories Janice A Cauliflower in Her Hair Behold the Child Among His Newborn Blisses It Isn’t the Money I Mind The Third Baby’s the Easiest The Summer People Island The Night We All Had Grippe A Visit; or, The Lovely House This Is the Life; or, Journey with a Lady One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts Louisa, Please Come Home The Little House The Bus The Possibility of Evil
Unpublished Stories Portrait The Mouse I Know Who I Love The Beautiful Stranger The Rock The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith
Appendix: Biography of a Story
“The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable,” writes A. M. Homes. “It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse.” Jackson’s characters—mostly unloved daughters in search of a home, a career, a family of their own—chase what appears to be a harmless dream until, without warning, it turns on its heel to seize them by the throat. We are moved by these characters’ dreams, for they are the dreams of love and acceptance shared by us all. We are shocked when their dreams become nightmares, and terrified by Jackson’s suggestion that there are unseen powers—“demons” both subconscious and supernatural—malevolently conspiring against human happiness.
In such works as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson took the American gothic tradition of Poe, Hawthorne, and Lovecraft and brought it down to earth, revealing that broad daylight held more subtle but no less chilling horrors. She was a master, as Dorothy Parker put it, of “beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders,” exploring the uncanny recesses concealed within the prosperous, conformist world of the postwar 1940s and 50s—and within our own unacknowledged selves.
Included in this boxed set are all six of her volume and dozens of her unforgettable stories, including The Lottery (1949), Jackson’s only collection of short fiction, as well as 21 other stories either uncollected or unpublished during her lifetime.
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