Come Along with Me

<b>A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story The Lottery <p/></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. <p/>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.