Synopses & Reviews
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 Jamess 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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"The Turn of the Screw is the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read in any literature, ancient or modern." —Independent
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"We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves . . . Henry James . . . can still make us afraid of the dark." —Virginia Woolf
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"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry." —Graham Greene
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"A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale." —Oscar Wilde
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"It really does turn your blood cold." —Colm Tóibín
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"Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically hes wonderful." —David Lodge
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"[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." —T. S. Eliot
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Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read, The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly
the most eerily equivocal. This new edition includes three rarely reprinted ghost stories from the 1890s, Sir Edmund Orme, Owen Wingrave, and The Friends of the Friends, as well as relevant extracts from James's notebooks and journals.
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*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor*
Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets of the house she becomes more and more convinced that something evil is watching her.
'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde
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 novels Roderick Hudson (1875) and The Wings of the Dove (1902), as well as the storyThe Beast in the Jungle (1903).