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The Road Through the Wall. In Pepper Street, an attractive suburban neighbourhood filled with bullies and egotistical bigots, the feelings of the inhabitants are shallow and selfish. One child stands alone in her goodness: little Caroline Desmond, kind, sweet and gentle, and the pride of her family. But the malice and self-absorption of the ...
Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.
5 de ene. de 2016 · The Road through the Wall is the exception as there is no central character, rather a quickly changing kaleidoscope of characters inhabiting Pepper Street, average American suburbia, where propriety is always maintained but a constant undercurrent of malice and dissatisfaction is detectable, in Jackson's distinctly misanthropic view.
- Shirley Jackson
1 de ene. de 1998 · The Bird’s Nest, Jackson’s third novel, develops hallmarks of the horror master’s most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind. Show more. Genres Horror Fiction Classics Literature Gothic. 834 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1998.
Humor (Fiction.) HTML: The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career. Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots. of pleasant folks live there.
Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.
