Shirley Jackson Knihy

A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story The Lottery At last, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history. In her gothic visions of small-town America, Jackson, the author of such masterworks as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, turns an ordinary world into a supernatural nightmare. This eclectic collection goes beyond her horror writing, revealing the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson's unfinished novel about the quirky inner life of a lonely widow, it features sixteen short stories and three lectures she delivered during her last years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Sbírka pětadvaceti naturalistických povídek o světě plném děsivých děr. Jak si povšimla Donna Tarttová, přední americká spisovatelka současnosti, titulní povídka je také hororová, ale v těch ostatních je hrozba více skrytá a ne zcela jednoznačná. Až má čtenář někdy zprvu pocit, jako by se postavám nic vážného nedělo – a potom mu dojde, jak strašný je jejich dosavadní život, nebo teprve bude v důsledku toho, co se jim právě při hodilo. Povídky jako Elizabeth, Sedm druhů víceznačnosti, Květinová zahrada nebo Můj život s R. H. Macym ukazují obyčejné lidi konfrontované s nezájmem, snobismem, rasismem nebo neschopností vybočit ze zajetých kolejí či se vymanit z vlastních nereálných fantazií. Často v nich zajiskří černý humor.

Do starého domu zvaného Hill House přijíždí čtveřice pátračů: odborník v okultních vědách doktor Montague, jeho asistentka Theodora, dědic domu Luke a také mladá dívka jménem Eleanor, o níž se téměř nic neví. Společně se rozhodnou přijít na kloub podivným úkazům, jimiž je dům proslulý. Ten však má s těmito nebohými tvory své vlastní plány. Oldschoolová hororová klasika patří k nejznámějším dílům Shirley Jacksonové. Na tento román se odvolávají i takové hvězdy temných žánrů, jako jsou Neil Gaiman nebo Stephen King. Už několikrát se o jeho adaptaci pokusili filmaři, ale vystihnout obrazem hrůzu, jak ji slovně vylíčila autorka, se jim většinou nedaří.

Román, který začíná i končí těžko vysvětlitelným úmrtím a v němž se projevuje autorčin někdy až zlomyslný smysl pro humor, tak typický pro její sbírku povídek Loterie. Rodina Halloranových žije v Halloranském sídle, postaveném otcem tetičky Fanny. Jeho duch se však jedné noci zjeví s oznámením, že nastává konec světa a ušetřeni budou právě jen obyvatelé sídla. Jenomže před nedávnem zemřel hlavní dědic Lionel Halloran -- a jeho matka Orianna se rozhodla všechny příbuzné z domu vystrnadit…

"Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction, and also features family photographs and Shirley's own illustrations. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to three months before her premature death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote, full of subversive wit, vivid imagination, and gorgeous prose. Jackson spent much of her adult life as a faculty wife and mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is the everyday: trips to the dentist and dream vacations, overdue taxes and broken Christmas tree bulbs, new dogs and new babies, fad diets and recipes for fudge. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. This intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson--writer and teacher, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife--up to the light"-- Provided by publisher

This deluxe collector's edition boxed set features the complete works of Shirley Jackson, showcasing all six of her novels alongside her renowned story collection, The Lottery, and an additional twenty-one stories. It offers a comprehensive look at Jackson's influential writing, making it a must-have for fans and collectors alike.

Features a collection of writings across different genres by the mid-twentieth-century author

The narrative explores the extraordinary aspects of everyday life in mid-twentieth-century America, showcasing the depth and complexity of seemingly ordinary moments. With a keen eye for detail, the author captures the nuances of human experience, making it a resonant read for contemporary audiences. This work is celebrated as a significant contribution to literature, appealing to both new readers and those familiar with the author's unique style.

Noveller. Malice, deception and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life

Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist