Shirley Jackson's “The Lottery”

For over two generations, high school and college students have been reading Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery This deceptively simple hor- ror tale,

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first

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