The Lottery and Other Stories

Copyright

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 1948, 1949 by Shirley Jackson

Copyright renewed © 1976, 1977 by Laurence Hyman, Barry Hyman, Mrs. Sarah Webster, and Mrs. Joanne Schnurer

Introduction copyright © 2005 by A. M. Homes

All rights reserved

Published in 1949 by Farrar, Straus and Company

Some of these stories have appeared in The American Mercury, Charm, Harper’s, The Hudson Review, Mademoiselle, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Story magazine, The Woman’s Home Companion, and The Yale Review and are reprinted by the kind permission of the editors. The stories “After You, My Dear Alphonse,” “Come Dance with Me in Ireland,” and “Afternoon in Linen” (1943), “A Fine Old Firm,” “Colloquy,” and “Trial by Combat” (1944), and “The Lottery” (1948), copyrighted in the respective years and renewals obtained by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. (formerly The F.R. Publishing Corp.). “Charles” reprinted from Mademoiselle, July 1948. “Pillar of Salt” reprinted from Mademoiselle, October 1948. “Seven Types of Ambiguity” copyright 1948 by Story magazine. “The Renegade” copyright 1948 by Harper and Brothers. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

The author’s original title for this collection was The Lottery or, The Adventures of James Harris

Library of Congress Control Number: 2004062825

ISBN: 978-1-4299-5784-7

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