The Lottery

AuthorShirley Jackson
GenreFiction, Short Stories
Original LanguageEnglish
First published1948-06-26
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Notes"The Lottery" is a short story written by Shirley Jackson, first published in The New Yorker, June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small town which observes an annual ritual known as "the lottery", which results in the killing of one individual in the town.
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