Come Along with Me

<b>A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story The Lottery<br><br></b>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 <i>New Yorker</i> history. In her gothic visions of small-town America Jackson the author of such masterworks as <i>The Haunting of Hill House</i> and <i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</i> 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 <i>Come Along with Me</i> 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.<br><br>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700&#160;titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the&#160;series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date&#160;translations by award-winning translators.