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This indispensable anthology collects the short novels of Henry James, offering readers the full range of his skill and vision. Includes the chilling title novel, along with The Aspern Papers, The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle, and other classics. Revised reissue. By turns chilling, funny, tragic, and profound, this collection of six Henry James short novels allow readers to experience the full range of his skills and vision. The title story, The Turn of the Screw, is a chilling masterpiece of psychological terror that mixes the phantoms of the mind with those of the supernatural. Daisy Miller, the tale of a provincial American girl in Rome that established James's literary reputation, and An International Episode are superb examples of his focus on the clash between American and European values. And in The Aspern Papers, The Alter of the Dead, and The Beast in the Jungle, the author's remarkable sense of irony, his love of plot twists, and his view of male-female relationships find exquisite expression. With an Introduction by Fred Kaplan
Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York and died in London. In addition to many short stories, plays, and 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 o
A chilling ghost story, wrought with tantalising ambiguity, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw is edited with an introduction and notes by David Bromwich in Penguin Classics. In what Henry James called a 'trap for the unwary', The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess sent to a coun
