The Sundial
$22.50
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2014
Summary
Fans of Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House will enjoy this disquieting tale of people awaiting the end of the world in a large, isolated house.
Mrs. Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, much to the disgust of her daughter-in-law, the delight of her wicked granddaughter, and the confusion of the rest of the household. But when the original owner — long dead — arrives to announce the world is ending and only the house and its occupants will…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141391960 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141391960 |
| Author: | Shirley Jackson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
She is the finest master…of the cryptic, haunted tale
Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written – Donna Tartt
A pioneer of the supernatural horror genre * Observer *
She is the finest master…of the cryptic, haunted tale * The New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, ‘The Lottery’, was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird’s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.
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