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Come Along With Me (collection)
''Come Along with Me'' is a posthumous collection of works by American writer Shirley Jackson. It contains the incomplete titular novel, on which Jackson was working at the time of her death, three lectures delivered by Jackson, and sixteen short stories, mostly in the gothic genre, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery". The collection was published by Jackson's husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, in 1968, three years after Jackson's death, and includes a preface by him. It was listed by ''The New York Times Book Review'' among the best fiction of 1968. In 2013, ''Come Along with Me'' was reprinted by Penguin Classics. As of 2015, ''Come Along with Me'' was featured in the collections of more than 1,000 libraries. Summary The incomplete titular novel, ''Come Along with Me'', centres on the inner life of a cheerful middle-aged widow who calls herself Angela Motorman. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories. Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York and began contributing to ''The New Yorker,'' with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town". The couple settled in North Bennington, Vermont, in 1945, after the birth of their first child, when Hyman joined the faculty of Bennington College. After publishing her debut novel ''The Road Through the Wall'' (1948), a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood in California, Jackson gained significant public attention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |