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The Lottery

Shirley Jackson

Horror

Published
1949
ISBN
9781583415849

About the book

Shirley Jackson's classic The Lottery portrays a small town that gathers to hold its yearly lottery, a barbaric game of chance. Each head of household draws a slip, and the family with the marked slip will lose a member to stoning by the townsfolk.

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