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Publication date. June 26, 1948. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
Dictation. The secretaries of Henry James and Joseph Conrad have a brief lesbian affair, and hatch a scheme to switch a paragraph from each of their bosses' new works.. Actors. An ageing Jewish actor with an Irish-sounding stage name lands the role of King Lear in an off-Broadway play written by the daughter of a famous Yiddish performer.
Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, drawing by E. W. Kemble from "The Tar-Baby", by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904. The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Br'er Fox to entrap Br'er Rabbit.
The Great Automatic Grammatizator. The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories[1]) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their ...
Story. Publication Date. Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows (1965) War with the Robots (1967) Prime Number (1970) One Step from Earth (1970) The Best of Harry Harrison (1976) Stainless Steel Visions (1992) Galactic Dreams (1994)
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer 1967 Paperback Edition Author Norman Mailer Language English Genre Fiction Published 1967 Publisher Dell Pub. Co; First Dell Printing edition Publication place United States of America Pages 285 ISBN 978-0523480091 OCLC 961934 The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer is a 1967 anthology of short stories by Norman Mailer. It is grouped into eight thematic sections ...
Publication date. March 1967. " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream " is a post-apocalyptic science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM, born from the ...
Captive Market (short story) The Chromium Fence. Colony (short story) The Commuter (short story) The Cookie Lady (short story) The Crawlers (short story) The Crystal Crypt.