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The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English. W. W. Norton, 2005. ISBN 0-393-32776-0; Zipes, Jack (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Volumes 1-4. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-514656-5; Watson, Victor, The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
A 30-minute television adaptation was created, originally broadcast on the PBS children's series WonderWorks in 1982. The adaptation differs from the story in that the sun only appears every nine years, and the ending is expanded: the children atone for their horrible act by giving Margot flowers they picked while the Sun was out. [2]
Walter Macken was originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc (where he met his wife, Peggy) [2] in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre in Dublin.He also played lead roles on Broadway in M. J. Molloy's The King of Friday's Men [3] and his own play Home Is the Hero.
"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.
[4] [5] The story appears in her own collection of short stories A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories published in 1955 by Harcourt. [6] In 1960, it was included in the anthology The House of Fiction, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, and later included in numerous other short-story collections.
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
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