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Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel (Penguin Classics) (edición 2013)

por Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller (Prólogo)

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A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history. In her gothic visions of small-town America, Jackson, the author of such masterworks as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, turns an ordinary world into a supernatural nightmare. This eclectic collection goes beyond her horror writing, revealing the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson's unfinished novel about the quirky inner life of a lonely widow, it features sixteen short stories and three lectures she delivered during her last years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.… (más)
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Título:Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel (Penguin Classics)
Autores:Shirley Jackson
Otros autores:Laura Miller (Prólogo)
Información:Penguin Classics (2013), Paperback, 288 pages
Colecciones:Read, Library Book, Lo he leído pero no lo tengo
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Etiquetas:2011, Classic Literature, Compilation, Library Book, Recommended to read, Reviewed, Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson wrote two very different kinds of stories, both of them represented in “Come Along with Me,” edited by her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman and published in 1968.

When she died in 1965 she left an unfinished novel, “Come Along with Me,” and while it is only six chapters, we can be glad Hyman saw fit to publish it. These chapters, even the unedited ones, are brilliant, making readers wish desperately to know what happens next, or would have happened next if only Jackson had not died so prematurely. The rest of the book includes 16 stories, as well as three of her lectures.

The two kinds of stories she wrote include the fictional (although many initial readers of "The Lottery" were convinced it might be partly true) and the mostly true. The latter stories are humorous, and somewhat fictionalized, accounts of incidents involving her own family. This collection includes two gems, “Pajama Party” and “The Night We All Had Grippe.” These are similar in that, besides being funny, both involve people swapping beds all night long. In the first case it's the girls at her daughter's pajama party who, for a variety or reasons, can't settle long in one bed with one bedmate but keep moving around. In the other, everyone in the family is sick, and every bedroom is either too hot, too cold or whatever. No one can get comfortable, and so they stay in motion throughout the night.

If these tales suggest delightfully confused congestion, most of Jackson's other stories hint at isolation and menace. In "The Summer People," for example, a couple decides to stay in their summer cottage past Labor Day, rather than rushing back to the city as they usually do. The locals, who put up with summer people because they support their economy, seem to turn in unison against the Allisons when they do the unthinkable by staying too long.

"The Bus" finds an elderly woman dropped off by a bus driver in a strange town.

In "Louisa, Please Come Home," a teenage girl runs away from home and each year on the same day she listens to her mother's radio appeal for her to come home. Yet when Louise finally does return home after several years have passed, her parents don't recognize her, insisting that Louisa, now a grown woman, is an imposter.

In "A Day in the Jungle," the runaway is a married woman fed up with her husband and her life, but actually desiring only to be pursued and caught and valued by him. A similar woman in "The Beautiful Stranger" becomes convinced that her husband is an imposter, a handsome man only pretending to be her husband. She thrives on the excitement of this illicit relationship.

The book also includes Jackson's most famous short story, "The Lottery." Talk about isolation and menace. ( )
1 vota hardlyhardy | May 16, 2022 |
Contains:
Come along with me --
Fourteen stories: Janice --
Tootie in peonage --
A cauliflower in her hair --
I know who I love --
The beautiful stranger --
The summer people --
Island --
A visit --
The rock --
A day in the jungle --
Pajama party --
Louisa, please come home --
The little house --
The bus --
Three lectures, with two stories: Experience and fiction --
The night we all had grippe --
Biography of a story --
The lottery --
Notes for a young writer.
  Lemeritus | Nov 18, 2021 |
What a shame Shirley Jackson wasn't able to finish the novel Come Along with Me... it had all the makings of a great book. Love the very beginning of Angela traveling to her new life, basically the happy twin to Nell's drive in Haunting of Hill House.

Favorites from this collection: Come Along with Me, Island, A Visit, Louisa Please Come Home, The Night We All Had Grippe, and Notes for a Young Writer ( )
  misslevel | Sep 22, 2021 |
Interesting essays here about the craft too. ( )
  AminBoussif | Sep 22, 2021 |
Though everything I've read about Shirley Jackson says the contrary, I can't help but think that she was very unhappy. Perhaps she was only sympathetic: all of her central characters (her family stories aside), all of her focus, seems to be inside the heads of uncertain women unhappy with their lot.

They are always compelling, whether it is "Mrs. Angela Motorman," the protagonist of Jackson's unfinished novel, or Miss Harper, who has an unfortunate trip on the bus. Shirley Jackson in a quick phrase, a single scene, can illustrate the cruelties and odd habits of everyday life.

A few of the stories seemed lack a center, especially "The Rock," which had never been published before, but that might only be my lingering unease about the disquieting endings Jackson favored.

In addition to the short stories there are a few printed lectures on writing and reactions to "The Lottery", which are intelligent, funny, and offer a lot of insight into how Jackson operated as a writer.

The more of her work that I read, the better I can picture how connected all of her work really is. Shirley Jackson never repeated herself, but together her work really tells a lot about post-war America up to the early 1960s. ( )
  ManWithAnAgenda | Feb 18, 2019 |
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A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history. In her gothic visions of small-town America, Jackson, the author of such masterworks as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, turns an ordinary world into a supernatural nightmare. This eclectic collection goes beyond her horror writing, revealing the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson's unfinished novel about the quirky inner life of a lonely widow, it features sixteen short stories and three lectures she delivered during her last years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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