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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Oscar-nominated drama starring Shirley Mac Laine & Anne Bancroft As young dancers they were best friends & fierce rivals Deedee (Mac Laine) left the stage for marriage & motherhood while Emma (Bancroft) would become an international ballet icon When Deedee&s teenage daughter (Leslie Browne) is invited to join Emma&s dance company & begins an affair with a young Russian star (Mikhail Baryshnikov) the two women are forced to confront the choices they&ve made the resentments they&ve hidden & the emotional truths they must face ...

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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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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Sooner or later everybody pays Gerry Fegan a former paramilitary contract killer is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered Every night on the point of losing his mind he drowns their screams in drink His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths From the greedy politicians to the corrupt security forces the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen all are called to account But when Fegan's vendetta threatens to derail a hard-won truce & destabilise the government old comrades & enemies alike want him dead Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Thriller ...

The eagerly anticipated sequel to the global bestseller The Passage soon to be an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens & executive producer Ridley Scott THE TWELVEDeath-row prisoners with nightmare pasts & no future THE TWELVEUntil they were selected for a secret experiment THE TWELVETo create something more than human THE TWELVENow they are the future & humanity's worst nightmare has begun THE TWELVEThe epic sequel to THE PASSAGE ...

An essential primary source on Roman history Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars is a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin by Robert Graves author of I Claudius revised with an introduction & notes by James B Rives As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers & private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar & Augustus to the decline into depravity & civil war under Nero & the recovery that came with his successors A masterpiece of observation anecdote & detailed physical description The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn
- & all too human
- individuals James B Rives has sensitively updated Robert Graves's now classic translation reinstating Latin terms & updating vocabulary while retaining the liveliness of the original This edition contains a new chronology further reading glossaries maps notes & an introduction discussing Suetonius' life & works Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born in AD69
- the famous 'year of the four Emperors' From the letters of Suetonius' close friend Pliny the Younger we learn that he practiced briefly at the bar avoided political life & became chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian (AD117-38) Suetonius seems to have lived to a good age & probably died around the year AD140 If you enjoyed The Twelve Caesars you might like Tacitus's The Annals of Imperial Rome also available in Penguin Classics' Suetonius in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend reflects not only them but ourselves half-tempted creatures whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel & the monster within' Gore Vidal


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