Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences
By: Melanie R. Anderson
3.78
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
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1. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
By: Mary Wollstonecraft
3.44
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
In Maria , Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Right… read more
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"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
"She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep."-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
"Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women."-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
"...or like the flash which divides the threatening clouds of angry heaven only to display the horror which darkness shrouded"-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
2. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
3. Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
By: Shirley Jackson , Ruth Franklin , Sarah Hyman DeWitt , Laurence Jackson Hyman , Laurence Hyman
4.08
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR • From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The … read more
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"Why do women always look so funny alone at night? she thought. I guess you're so used to seeing them with some one."-Shirley Jackson, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
"No soporto escribir temas autobiográficos porque si son aburridos, nadie debería leerlos, y si son interesnates, debería usarlos en una historia."-Shirley Jackson, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
"Detesto scrivere pezzi autobiografici: se il materiale è noioso non bisognerebbe infliggerlo a nessuno, e se è interessante dovrei usarlo per un racconto."-Shirley Jackson, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
"I loathe writing autobiographical material because if it's dull no-one should have to read it anyway, and if it's interesting I should be using it for a story."-Shirley Jackson, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
4. Demian
By: Hermann Hesse
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more
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"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
5. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
6. Life Among the Savages
By: Shirley Jackson
3.94
Format: None pages,
Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting p… read more
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7. The Feminine Mystique
By: Anna Quindlen , Betty Friedan , Gail Collins
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic--these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and … read more
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8. The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more
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9. Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy
By: Bernice M. Murphy
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1… read more
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10. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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11. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
12. The Haunting of Hill House
By: Shirley Jackson , None
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959,… read more
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13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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14. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
15. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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16. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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17. Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories
By: Shirley Jackson , Laurence Jackson Hyman , None
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed in her own time for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill Hous… read more
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18. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more
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19. The Lottery and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more
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20. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
21. Eileen
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman… read more
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22. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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23. Dark Tales
By: Shirley Jackson
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the q… read more
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24. The Vegetarian
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.00
Format: 204 pages,
Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… read more
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25. The Sundial
By: Shirley Jackson
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end.... Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one i… read more
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26. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
By: Iain Reid
3.55
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in t… read more
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"Reality only happens once." (P. 48)"-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"It hurts, all of it, but we feel nothing."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"Every story is made up. Even the real ones."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"I actually want to be older. I’m happy to age, seriously."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
27. Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
By: Ruth Franklin
4.01
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such c… read more
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"Constance and Merricat are indeed “two halves of the same person,"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"Brown, they would later write, had taught them that the goal of reading and criticizing was "to know and understand, not to like or dislike, and the aim of writing was to get down what you wanted to …"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"Every description is calculated for what it reveals, both about the character to whom it refers and the person whose attitude it represents ... As always in these descriptions, she has a knack for th…"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
"If one is bewildered and unhappy, why not show it, and why will not people explain and comfort? But instead—this pretense at calm satisfaction, where underneath there is all the seething restless des…"-Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
28. The Letters of Shirley Jackson
By: Shirley Jackson
4.55
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "… read more
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"what a shame that dreams are not the stuff that stories are made on."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
"The road to hell is very likely paved with my notes for stories and books and articles."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
"what a past. i swear i'd forgotten most of it until these people started telling me about it."-Shirley Jackson, The Letters of Shirley Jackson
29. Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House
By: Jill E. Anderson
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narrativ… read more
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30. Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences
By: Melanie R. Anderson
3.78
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
The popularity of such widely known works as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House has tende… read more
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