The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099511231 ISBN 13: 9780099511236

Publisher: Random House UK, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry James (18431916) was a noted novelist and literary critic, as well as a pioneer in the genre of the short story. His works include the novelsRoderick Hudson (1875) and The Wings of the Dove (1902), as well as the story

The Beast in the Jungle (1903).

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099511231
• ISBN 13: 9780099511236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256