The Turn of the Screw: And Other Stories (Konemann Classics) - Hardcover
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. At first Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess begins to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets hidden in the house, she is increasingly convinced that something evil is watching her. Several other of Henry James?s most gruesome horror stories are also included, among them The Jolly Corner, Owen Wingrave, The Private Life, The Real Right Thing, and Sir Edmund Orme.
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HENRY JAMES was born in New York in 1842 and settled in Europe in 1875, spending more than two decades in London. He wrote some twenty novels including Portrait of a Lady, The Europeans, Washington Square, The Wings of a Dove, and Golden Bowl, in addition to many short stories, plays, and books of criticism, autobiography, and travel. James became a naturalized British citizen in 1915, was awarded the Order of Merit, and dies in 1916.
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"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
"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry." —Graham Greene
"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
"[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." —T. S. Eliot
"We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves . . . Henry James . . . can still make us afraid of the dark." —Virginia Woolf
"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry." —Graham Greene
"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
"[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." —T. S. Eliot
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- PublisherKonemann
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 3895082317
- ISBN 13 9783895082313
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages300
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