The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
by:
Tim Lustig (author)
T.J. Lustig (author)
Henry James (author)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192834041 (0192834045)
Publish date: November 19th 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Paranormal,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
American,
19th Century,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Gothic,
Ghosts
I first thought that I would never get through this book. I've constantly thought of James' writing as 'heavy.' It's not that he uses obscure words (though I reached for the dictionary once or twice), it's simply that he uses so many.Of the four stories in here, the one I liked best was "The Friends...
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