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Just an ordinary day / Shirley Jackson ; edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin modern classicsPublisher: [London] Penguin Books, 2017Copyright date: ©1996Description: xi, 475 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141983202 (paperback)
  • 0141983205 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The smoking room -- I don't kiss strangers -- Summer afternoon -- Indians live in tents -- The very hot sun in Bermuda -- Nightmare -- Dinner for a gentleman -- Party of boys -- Jack the ripper -- The honeymoon of Mrs. Smith (versions I and II) -- The sister -- Arch-criminal -- Mrs. Anderson -- Come to the fair -- Portrait -- Gnarly the king of the jungle -- The good wife -- Devil of a tale -- The mouse -- My grandmother and the world of cats -- Maybe it was the car -- Lovers meeting -- My recollections of S.B. Fairchild -- Deck the halls -- Lord of the castle -- What a thought -- When Barry was seven -- Before autumn -- The story we used to tell -- My uncle in the garden -- On the house -- Little old lady in great need -- When things get dark -- Whistler's grandmother -- Family magician -- The wishing dime -- About two nice people -- Mrs. Melville makes a purchase -- Journey with a lady -- The most wonderful thing -- The friends -- Alone in a den of cubs -- The order of Charlotte's going -- One ordinary day, with peanuts -- The missing girl -- The omen -- The very strange house next door -- A great voice stilled -- All she said was yes -- Home -- I.O.U. -- The possibility of evil.
Summary: A collection of new and previously unpublished stories.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection JACK 1 Available T00617218
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An anxious devil, a malicious old woman and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy's thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of evil lurks behind perfect rose bushes. This is the world of Shirley Jackson, by turns frightening, funny, strange and unforgettably revealed in this collection of brilliant stories from the author of 'The Lottery'.

First published in hardcover in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 1997.

A collection of new and previously unpublished stories.

The smoking room -- I don't kiss strangers -- Summer afternoon -- Indians live in tents -- The very hot sun in Bermuda -- Nightmare -- Dinner for a gentleman -- Party of boys -- Jack the ripper -- The honeymoon of Mrs. Smith (versions I and II) -- The sister -- Arch-criminal -- Mrs. Anderson -- Come to the fair -- Portrait -- Gnarly the king of the jungle -- The good wife -- Devil of a tale -- The mouse -- My grandmother and the world of cats -- Maybe it was the car -- Lovers meeting -- My recollections of S.B. Fairchild -- Deck the halls -- Lord of the castle -- What a thought -- When Barry was seven -- Before autumn -- The story we used to tell -- My uncle in the garden -- On the house -- Little old lady in great need -- When things get dark -- Whistler's grandmother -- Family magician -- The wishing dime -- About two nice people -- Mrs. Melville makes a purchase -- Journey with a lady -- The most wonderful thing -- The friends -- Alone in a den of cubs -- The order of Charlotte's going -- One ordinary day, with peanuts -- The missing girl -- The omen -- The very strange house next door -- A great voice stilled -- All she said was yes -- Home -- I.O.U. -- The possibility of evil.

A collection of new and previously unpublished stories.

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