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Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
"There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it ...Show more
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
$27.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Penguin Classics
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, college life doesn't bring the happiness she expected. Little by little, Nat ...Show more
Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring l ...Show more
Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a spectacular new volume of unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and in ...Show more
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
$24.00 NZD
$26.00 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children' As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicl ...Show more
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
$25.45 NZD
$26.00 (2% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really pl ...Show more
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the uproarious sequel to "Life Among the Savages," the author of "The Haunting of Hill House "confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to "Life Among the Savages," Jackson's four children have grown from savages into full-fledged demons. After bursting the se ...Show more
Start School: My Tick Tock Day by Shirley Jackson
$14.95 NZD
Category: Board Books, Cloth Books, Pop-up Books and Musical Books
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson (Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
$29.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Penguin Classics
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother's inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, ...Show more
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. "An amazing writer". (Neil Gaiman). Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more