Shirley Jackson Livres

Hill House est une immense et lugubre résidence, construite au XIXe siècle par le richissime industriel Hugh Crain. C'est une monstruosité architecturale, née d'un esprit torturé qui la souhaita à son image : labyrinthique, ténébreuse et pleine de lourds et terribles secrets. On la dit hantée, maléfique. Un chercheur fasciné par les phénomènes paranormaux a réuni dans la vieille demeure trois sujets, dont la personnalité lui paraît propre à susciter des manifestations surnaturelles, pour vérifier si Hill House et ses fantômes sont à la hauteur de leur réputation. Le cauchemar peut commencer...

"Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest writers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson's beloved fiction, and also features family photographs and Shirley's own illustrations. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson's college years to three months before her premature death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the autobiography Shirley Jackson never wrote, full of subversive wit, vivid imagination, and gorgeous prose. Jackson spent much of her adult life as a faculty wife and mother of four in Vermont, and the landscape here is the everyday: trips to the dentist and dream vacations, overdue taxes and broken Christmas tree bulbs, new dogs and new babies, fad diets and recipes for fudge. But in recounting these events to family, friends, and colleagues, she turns them into remarkable stories: entertaining, revealing, and wise. This intimate collection holds the beguiling prism of Shirley Jackson--writer and teacher, mother and daughter, neighbor and wife--up to the light"-- Provided by publisher

This deluxe collector's edition boxed set features the complete works of Shirley Jackson, showcasing all six of her novels alongside her renowned story collection, The Lottery, and an additional twenty-one stories. It offers a comprehensive look at Jackson's influential writing, making it a must-have for fans and collectors alike.

Features a collection of writings across different genres by the mid-twentieth-century author

Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid- twentieth-century common. 'Just an Ordinary Day' is a gift to a new generation. (San Francisco Chronicle) For Jackson devotees, as well as first- time readers, this is a feast ... A virtuoso collection (Publishers Weekly)

Noveller. Malice, deception and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life

Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist

Tigers, snakes and crocodiles too. But who watches you when you're at the zoo? * Sharing a story or rhyme for only 10 minutes each day helps your child to enjoy practising her reading. * Books 1-8 of Read with Ladybird will help children who are just starting to learn to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson’s four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting the seams of their first house, Jackson’s clan moves into a larger home. Of course, the chaos simply moves with them. A confrontation with the IRS, Little League, trumpet lessons, and enough clutter to bury her alive—Jackson spins them all into an indelible reminder that every bit as thrilling as a murderous family in a haunted house is a happy family in a new home.

Franklin has gathered four of Jackson's novels, with which she began her irreplaceable, all too-brief career. Originally published between 1948 and 1958, they are published here without change except for the correction of typographical errors. Within these stories Jackson explores the recessed concealed within the prosperous world of the postwar 1940s and 50s-- and withing our own unacknowledged selves. -- adapted from front flap and Note on the Texts, pages 842-843