![]() My favourite of the three was Journey with a Lady, in which a young boy is sent off alone on a train to meet his grandfather, interrupted when a lady enters his carriage and starts asking him patronising questions. This book contains three mini stories: The Missing Girl, Journey with a Lady and Nightmare. I haven’t read the book yet, but thought that this little book would be a great introduction to Jackson’s writing. ![]() I was looking forward to reading this one, having really enjoyed ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ when released on Netflix a couple of years ago. My third Penguin Modern Series read is number 20, “The Missing Girl” written by Shirley Jackson. ![]() Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson essays radical and inspiring poems moving and disturbing stories surreal and fabulous taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space. ![]() ![]() Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease. “Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that’s missing…” ![]()
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