sly. Since this novel was published in 1968, three years after Jackson passed away, Mr. Hyman again edited the completed sections, along with several uncollected short stories. Primary WorksShirley Jackson has been a very prolific author. In all, Jackson has published, three articles, four works of non-fiction prose, two family books, seven novels, one play, one work of poetry, and more than fifty-five short stories. Jackson's primary works which are most notable is the short story "The Lottery"(1948), her two family books, "Life Among the Savages" (1953) and "Raising Demons"(1957), a non-fiction prose "Witchcraft in Salem Village"(1956), and her seven novels, "Road Through the Wall" (1948), "Hangsaman"(1951) "The Bird's Nest" (1954), "The Sundial" (1958),"The Haunting of Hill House"(1959), and "We Have Always Lived in a Castle" (1962). In Jackson's first novel, "The Road through the Wall"(1948), she wrote of a snobbish neighborhood in suburban San Francisco and sketched its moral collapse as a result of prejudice and murder. This work affirmed Jackson's loathing of intolerance and bigotry. Her short story, "The Lottery", also published in 1948 was about a town's tradition of sacrificing a human so there would be a good harvest. "The Hangsaman"(1951), her second novel, tells the story of a seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite mercifully escaping her father's oppression by leaving home to attend college. She does not have the social skills to adjust to the uninhibited environment, however, and so she invents Tony, an imaginary female friend. Tony soon becomes more frightening than friendly, and in a climactic scene, Natalie is forced to choose between reality and her imaginary friend. "Life Among the Savages"(1953) and "Raising Demons"(1957) are both about family life in a small New England town, which is where Shirley Jackson lived with her husband and children until her death last year. Jackson's next novel, "The Bird's Nest" (1954), is a ...
