The Turn of the Screw
$19.32
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2011
Summary
The Turn of the Screw: A Hauntingly New Edition
‘The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me, it stopped short’
The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. This ne…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441351 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141441356 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Henry James, David Bromwich |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 135g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Remarkably vivid and disquieting … Whether this beloved 19th-century novella retains the power to frighten you depends on the degree to which you’ve ever questioned your own senses or doubted your sanity… . A classic of Gothic literature, prized for its ambiguity and sophistication.” —The New York Times
About The Author
Henry James
Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.
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