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Lisa asked this question about The Haunting of Hill House:
Comment on this Penguin Classics edition - is it common to feature a spoiler in the Introduction? Perhaps I'm naïve to this practice, but, I was pretty irritated.
Elfkin477 I'm very familiar with the 1963 movie (and 1999, though it's a much looser adaptation) so the spoiler's content wasn't a shock, but the fact that they…moreI'm very familiar with the 1963 movie (and 1999, though it's a much looser adaptation) so the spoiler's content wasn't a shock, but the fact that they mentioned Nell's fate at the end of the book in the intro was shocking. I imagine that anyone coming to the story without any previous adaptation-based knowledge would be furious.(less)
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
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