The Shirley Jackson Collection: A Library of America Boxed Set - Hardcover

Jackson, Shirley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598536710 ISBN 13: 9781598536713

Publisher: Library of America, 2020

Synopsis

For the first time in a deluxe collector's edition boxed set, here is the ultimate Shirley Jackson edition, including all six novels, the famous story collection The Lottery, and twenty-one other stories.

Collects

Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories (LOA #204)
The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris
The Haunting of Hill House
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Uncollected Stories (15)
Unpublished Stories (6)
Appendix: "Biography of a Story"

Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA #336)
The Road Through the Wall
Hangsaman
The Bird's Nest
The Sundial

About this title

About the Author

Shirley Jackson (1919–1965), a master of modern horror and psychological suspense, was the acclaimed author of six novels, scores of stories, and two works of nonfiction.

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of gothic fiction including Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque, a 1995 World Fantasy Award nominee; and Zombie, winner of the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, awarded by the Horror Writers' Association. In 1994, Oates received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in Horror Fiction. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Ruth Franklin is a book critic and frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Harper's, and many other publications. Her 2016 book Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life was a New York Times Notable selection and the winner of the National Book Critics Circile Award for Biography. A recipient of a New York Public Library Cullman Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1598536710
• ISBN 13: 9781598536713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1732
• Editor: Franklin Ruth, Oates Joyce Carol