Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"The Lottery\" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, written in the month of its first publication, in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker. The story describes a fictional small town which observes—as do many other communities, both large and small, throughout contemporary America—an annual ritual known as \"the lottery.\" It has been described as \"one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature.\"The initially negative response to the story surprised both Jackson and The New Yorker. Readers canceled subscriptions and sent hate mail throughout the summer. The Union of South Africa banned the story."@en }
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- The_Lottery abstract "\"The Lottery\" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, written in the month of its first publication, in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker. The story describes a fictional small town which observes—as do many other communities, both large and small, throughout contemporary America—an annual ritual known as \"the lottery.\" It has been described as \"one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature.\"The initially negative response to the story surprised both Jackson and The New Yorker. Readers canceled subscriptions and sent hate mail throughout the summer. The Union of South Africa banned the story.".