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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle( )
Author: Jackson, Shirley
Afterword by: Lethem, Jonathan
Illustrator: Ott, Thomas
Series title:Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
ISBN:978-0-14-303997-6
Publication Date:Oct 2006
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.00
Book Description:

Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem. For more than seventy years, Penguin...
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Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Psychological
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.72 x 8.37 x 0.5 Inches
Book Weight:0.425 Pounds
Author Biography
Jackson, Shirley (Author)
Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December, 14, 1919. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University in 1940. Much of her writing was done during the years she was raising her children. She is best-known for the short story The Lottery, which was first published in 1948 and adapted for television in 1952 and into play form in 1953.

Her published works include articles, nonfiction prose, plays, poetry, seven novels, and fifty-five short stories. Her other works include Life among the Savages, Raising Demons, The Haunting of Hill House, which was adapted to film, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. She died on August 8, 1965 at the age of 45.

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