About This Book
Best known for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson produced a body of work that is more varied and complex than critics have realized. In fact, as Darryl Hattenhauer argues here, Jackson was one of the few writers to anticipate the transition from...
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6h 17m
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180 WPM
4h 32m
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250 WPM
3h 14m
fast reader
350 WPM
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