Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics The place with its grey sky & withered garlands its bared spaces & scattered dead leaves was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills' Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told James's The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles & his sister Flora all manner of strange events begin to occur The governess spots a ghostly man & woman around the grounds & is told by the housekeeper that the valet & previous governess haunt the house It soon becomes clear that the children are inexplicably connected to these ghosts in some way & the young governess struggles to protect the children although from exactly what she is not sure Exploring the psychological & sexual fears of an era this ambiguous suspenseful & anxiety-inspiring novella remains one of Henry James's most well-known tales ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Claire Seymour University of Kent at Canterbury The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered Set in a country house it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured & accomplished The author cleverly evokes the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace ...

An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts & the uncanny' There had been a moment when I believed I recognised faint & far the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage before my door of a light footstep''I see ghosts everywhere' wrote Henry James who retained a fascination with the supernatural & sensational throughout his writing career This new collection brings together eight of James's tales exploring the uncanny including his infamous ghost story ' The Turn of the Screw' a work saturated with evil in which a fraught governess becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing the children in her care The other masterly works here include ' The Jolly Corner' ' Owen Wingrave' & further tales of visitations premonitions madness grief & family secrets where the living are just as mysterious & unknowable as the dead With an introduction & notes by Susie Boyt General Editor Philip Horne ...

A young inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles & Flora two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower & his face at the window It is Peter Quint the master's dissolute valet & he has come for little Miles But Peter Quint is dead Like the other tales collected here
- ' Sir Edmund Orme' ' Owen Wingrave' & ' The Friends of the Friends'
- ' The Turn of the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave or victims of the governess's 'infernal imagination' which torments but also entrals her? ' The Turn of the Screw' is probably the most famous certainly the most eerily equivocal of all ghostly tales Is it a subtle self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture filled with echoes of sexual & social unease? Or is it simply 'the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those of the New York Edition with a new Introduction & Notes ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more

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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 ...

Erykah Macdonald has a nice life
- the kind of life you're meant to want But on her twentieth wedding anniversary she's about to
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A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales
- now for the first time in English With this volume the holy trinity of fairy tales
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1 Ice Cream Sundae 2 Wide Awake 3 The Neighbour 4 Either Way 5 Push The Ghosts 6 Reap What You Sow 7 Loosely Dancing 8 Two Lovers 9 Don&t Wait Up 10 Got Me Sussed 11 Cloudy Room 12 Website Link ...

The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin & Sadie books set in Belfast during the Troubles It is one of The Originals from Penguin
- iconic outspoken first Sadie is Protestant Kevin is Catholic
- & on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide It starts with a dare
- kids fooling around
- but soon becomes something dangerous Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever But will the world around them change too? The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults From political awakening war & unrequited love to addiction teenage pregnancy & nuclear holocaust The Originals confront big issues & articulate difficult truths The collection

Includes:: The Outsiders
- SE Hinton I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith Postcards from No Man's Land
- Aidan Chambers After the First Death
- Robert Cormier Dear Nobody
- Berlie Doherty The Endless Steppe
- Esther Hautzig Buddy
- Nigel Hinton Across the Barricades
- Joan Lingard The Twelfth Day of July
- Joan Lingard No Turning Back
- Beverley Naidoo Z for Zachariah
- Richard C O' Brien The Wave
- Morton Rhue The Red Pony
- John Steinbeck The Pearl
- John Steinbeck Stone Cold
- Robert Swindells




















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The Twelfth Insight is the fourth book in the hugely successful Celestine series It is an adventure tale that is both suspenseful & contemplative & builds on the insights introduced in Redfield's previous books It describes a new wave of tolerance & integrity that is emerging in reaction to years of conflict warfare & political corruption With unsurpassed insight James Redfield continues the astounding spiritual journey that is the Celestine series Through deep intuition of the world within & without he moves the series into the future showing us that 2012 is not about the end of the world
- but about the unifying life of everyday miracles In this book the familiar character of Wil returns along with our narrator ' The Hero' Wil has found a fragment of a mysterious ancient document which seems to be the first part of a guide to spiritual experience Each step of the guide offers an expanded clarity about the larger picture of human life & purpose But Wil & our Hero have only one part of the old document & must systematically find the remaining parts A global search has been unleashed to find the message & meaning of the document in its entirety
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