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The Turn of the Screw: And Other Stories (Vintage Classics)
Henry James
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Description for The Turn of the Screw: And Other Stories (Vintage Classics)
Paperback. A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets of the house she becomes convinced that something evil is watching her. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.
*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor*
Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets of the house she becomes more and more convinced that something evil is watching her.
'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde
Product Details
Publisher
Random House UK
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099511236
SKU
V9780099511236
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About Henry James
Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 in New York to a wealthy and intellectual family and as a youth travelled widely and studied in Europe. He briefly studied law at Harvard before he took up writing full-time. His first novel, Watch and Ward, was published in 1871 and many followed including Roderick Hudson (1875), Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). He also wrote short stories, reviews, biographies, plays and travel books. After a brief period in Paris, James moved to London.He later settled in Rye in Sussex and became a British citizen in 1915. Henry James died on 28 February 1916.
Reviews for The Turn of the Screw: And Other Stories (Vintage Classics)
A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale
Oscar Wilde It really does turn your blood cold
Colm Tóibín Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he's wonderful
David Lodge Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry
Graham Greene [James] is the most intelligent man of his generation
T. S. Eliot The Turn of the Screw is the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read in any literature, ancient or modern
Independent
We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves... Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark
Virginia Woolf
Oscar Wilde It really does turn your blood cold
Colm Tóibín Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he's wonderful
David Lodge Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry
Graham Greene [James] is the most intelligent man of his generation
T. S. Eliot The Turn of the Screw is the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read in any literature, ancient or modern
Independent
We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves... Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark
Virginia Woolf