The Turn Of The Screw By Henry James (Paperback, 2011)

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A chilling ghost story wrought with tantalising ambiguity Henry James's The Turn of the Screw is edited with an introduction & 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 country house to take charge of two orphans Miles & Flora Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care But is the threat to her young charges really a malign & ghostly presence or something else entirely? The Turn of the Screw is James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere & unbearable tension & has influenced subsequent ghost stories & films such as The Innocents starring Deborah Kerr & The Others starring Nicole Kidman This Penguin Classics edition contains a chronology further reading notes & an introduction by David Bromwich examining the dark ambiguity of James's work & the inseparability of narrative from point-of-view Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian & brother to the philosopher William James was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siecle In addition to many short stories plays books of criticism biography & autobiography & much travel writing he wrote some twenty novels His novella Daisy Miller (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic & his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880) The Portrait of a Lady (1881) The Awkward Age (1899) The Wings of the Dove (1902) The Ambassadors (1903) & The Golden Bowl (1904) If you enjoyed The Turn of the Screw you might like Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher also available in Penguin Classics'A most wonderful lurid poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde