Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 2009.

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Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
2009

Taschenbuch
176 Seiten
ISBN 9780141191454

Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall , was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman , The Bird's Nest , The Sundial , The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle , widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized

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magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep in 1965 at the age of 48.