Timeline
Lifetime:
1874 -
1966
Passed: ≈
59 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Mary Heaton Vorse
Books by Mary Heaton Vorse
Ninth Man
Fiction
Dystopian
Drama
Fear
Death
Cruelty
Resistance
Human Nature
Secret
Suspicion
Social control
Tyrant
Edict
Lottery
Public execution
In a small Italian town, a brutal tyrant seizes power and establishes a horrifying system of control. Every thirty days, a lottery selects a ninth person, who is then given the chilling responsibility of designating a fellow citizen for public execut...