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The Lottery Ticket: Drama
Seventeen year old Jason Breezey lost his mother when he was eight.
The Lottery Ticket is not one of Mr. Verne's typical sea-air-adventure-stories, although it belongs to the author's well-known series called Voyages Extraordinaires.
One might want to think twice about all he or she could grab from the money that puts them on top of the world. Enter Santa Roma through this story and see where the winners' luck takes them.
The house is broken into whilst they are away. Along with a number of prize items the thieves steal two lottery tickets. One of these is the winning ticket and the gang who did the break-in claims the first prize of over £4m pounds.
Ted Nellen provides the full text of the English translation of the story online as part of Classic Short Stories, a resource featuring a collection of short stories.
News of the tragedy spreads, along with Hulda's possible riches from the lottery ticket, whose drawing day grows near. Includes a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer.
The Lottery Ticket (French: Un Billet de loterie, 1886) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. It was also published in the United States under the title Ticket No. "9672".
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
One might want to think twice about all he or she could grab from the money that puts them on top of the world. Enter Santa Roma through this story and see where the winners' luck takes them.
And it is exactly because of this that they fail to notice the obvious problem. Enjoyable and amusing, "The Lottery Ticket" is one of those stories of Chekhov that can be grouped under the general "stories with a twist".
During his career, Verne wrote more than 60 novels, 54 of which were part of the ‘Extraordinary Voyages’ series.
One day Luke Cherry finds his mother hanging from the living room rafters, an apparent suicide, but this is far from the truth.