Works originally published in The New Yorker

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Chapters: 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker, A&P (story), A Home at the End of the World, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Brokeback Mountain (short story), Chef's House, Dip in the Pool, Edward the Conqueror, For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, Franny and Zooey, Girl (poem), Hapworth 16, 1924, Harvey's Dream, Head Down (essay), Hiroshima (book), I See You Never, Junior Miss, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, Lost in Translation (poem), My Sister Eileen, My Son the Fanatic, New Yorkistan, On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, Parallel Play (memoir by Tim Page), Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, Signs and Symbols, Slight Rebellion off Madison, So Long, See You Tomorrow, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, Subsoil (short story), Teddy (story), That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French, The Book of Sand, The Death of Jack Hamilton, The Early Stories: 1953-1975, The End of Vandalism, The Enormous Radio, The Imposter (short story), The Laughing Man (short story), The Lottery, The Man in the Black Suit, The Muses Are Heard, The Namesake, The Orchid Thief, The Ponder Heart, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel), The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble, The Same Door, The Sea Around Us, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Unicorn in the Garden, The Unknown Citizen, The Way Up to Heaven, The Way We Live Now (short story), Through the Tunnel, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures. Excerpt: "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in the June 26, 1948 issue of The New Yorker. Written the same month it was published, it is ranked today as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature". It has been described as "a chilling tale of conformity gone mad." Response to the story was negative, surprising Jackson, Caleb Mann (the local head editor at the local paper) and The New Yorker. Readers canceled subscriptions and sent hate mail throughout the summer. The story was banned in the Union of South Africa. Since then, it has been accepted as a classic American short story, subject to critical interpretations and media adaptations, and it has been taught in middle schools and high schools for decades since its publication. Details of contemporary small town American life are contrasted with an annual ritual known as "the lottery." In a small village of about 300 residents, the locals are in an excited yet nervous mood on June 27. Children gather stones as the adult townsfolk assemble for their annual event, that in the local tradition has been practiced to ensure a good harvest (one character quotes an old proverb: "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon"), though there are some rumors that nearby communities are talking of "giving up the lottery." In the first round of the lottery, the head of each family draws a small slip of paper from a black box; Bill Hutchinson gets the one slip with a black spot, meaning that his family has been chosen. In the next round, each Hutchinson family member draws a slip, and Bill's wife Tessie-who had arrived late-gets the marked slip. In keeping with tradition, each villager obtains a stone and begins to surround Tessie. The story ends as Tessie is stoned to death while she bemoans the unfairness of the situation. The lottery preparations start the night before with Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves making the paper slips and the li...