Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

Name: Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
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ISBN: 9780553210590

ISBN-10: 0553210599

ISBN-13: 9780553210590

Edition: 1983

Authors: Henry James

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To read a story by Henry James is to enter a world--a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating Nouvelles --works which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in The Turn Of The Screw to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in The Beast In The Jungle, the mysterious tumings of human behavior are skillfully and coolly observed--proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one…

Book details

List price: $6.95
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/1/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 4.17" wide x 6.89" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction


Note on the texts


Further reading


Chronology



Prefaces



Sir Edmund Orme


Owen Wingrave


The Friends of the Friends


The Turn of the Screw


Appendix: from James's Notebooks


Notes


Variant readings