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The story is split into three acts given in reverse chronological order. Act 3 comes first. They are given in chronological order here: In Act 1, "I Contain Multitudes", Chuck is orphaned and is brought up by his paternal grandparents, where his love of dancing develops.
306 pp. The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. Published by Farrar, Straus, it includes "The Lottery" and 24 other stories. This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime. Her later posthumous collections were Come Along with Me (Viking, 1968), edited by ...
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.
Preceded by. A Murder Is Announced. Followed by. They Came to Baghdad. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. [1] The first edition retailed at $2.50. [1]
Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".
311 (novel) [1] ISBN. 0-15-131510-8. OCLC. 232370. Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo ...
1978 (collection) " Children of the Corn " is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. [1] The story has been adapted into several films, spawning a horror feature film franchise of the same name beginning in 1984.
Publication date. November 1980. "The Monkey" is a short story by Stephen King, first published as a booklet included in Gallery magazine in 1980. It was significantly revised and published in King's collection Skeleton Crew in 1985. "The Monkey" was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for best short story in 1982.