THE LOTTERY (306 pp.)Shirley JacksonFarrar, Straus ($2.75).
When the title story in this collection of tales first appeared in The New Yorker, it brought forth a flood of mail. Few readers were sure they knew what the story meant, but it had dug its way into their minds.
On a fine June morning, wrote Shirley Jackson, the whole village began to gather. The children, their pockets stuffed with stones, came first, and three of the boys built a pile of stones in a corner of the square. Then came the men, talking of taxes, crops, the weather. The women, wearing house dresses and...
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