The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which Henry James is best remembered. Set in an English 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 the comedie humaine against the majestic setting of a Venetian palace. ...

A young inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles & Flora two small children abandoned by their uncles 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 masters 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 governesss 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 Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords 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 young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora & 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 & more convinced that something evil is watching her. ...

She made a promise but can she keep it? When Lucy Patterson promises her dying mother that she'll leave the comfortable home they've shared with her mother's employer Stanley Jones to go & live with her Aunt Flo on the other side of the Mersey she has no idea of the terrible consequences. Life with the Flanagans in the slums of Liverpool & Lucy's new job in a factory are totally different from the world she has known. Mocked by her cousins & the women she works alongside & terrified by the brutality of her uncle & the unwelcome attentions of her cousin Frank Lucy is desperately unhappy. & then one day the worst happens & Lucy finds herself homeless friendless & destitute. It seems there's only one person in the world willing to help her. But can she break her promise to her mother? Or should she accept that there's only one place a girl in her situation can go.. .? ...

A dramatic shift in British & French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire" Adam Smith Edmund Burke & Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically & economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid-nineteenth century however the most prominent British & French liberal thinkers including John Stuart Mill & Alexis de Tocqueville vigorously supported the conquest of non-European people. Pitts explains that this reflected a rise in civilizational self-confidence as theories of human progress became more triumphalist less nuanced & less tolerant of cultural difference. At the same time imperial expansion abroad came to be seen as a political project that might assist the emergence of stable liberal democracies within Europe. Pitts shows that liberal thinkers usually celebrated for respecting not only human equality & liberty but also pluralism supported an inegalitarian & decidedly nonhumanitarian international politics. Yet such moments represent not a necessary feature of liberal thought but a striking departure from views shared by precisely those late-eighteenth-century thinkers whom Mill & Tocqueville saw as their forebears. Fluently written "A Turn to Empire" offers a novel assessment of modern political thought & international justice & an illuminating perspective on continuing debates over empire intervention & liberal political commitments." ...

This text is designed for turners who have mastered the basics of the craft & are looking for creative ideas to expand their range & develop their skills. 50 design projects are included in this text each illustrated by a working drawing & colour photograph. The projects include a variety of native & exotic timbers. ...

This is an exploration of our preoccupation with the weather as heard on BBC Radi 3: Changing Climates. In his trademark style Richard Mabey weaves together science art & memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture & national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers & our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists' love affair with London smog seasonal affective disorder (SAD
- do we all get it?) & the mysteries of storm migraines; herrings falling like hail in Norfolk & Saharan dust reddening south-coast cars; moonbows dog-suns fog-mirages & Constable's clouds; the fact that English has more words for rain than Inuit has for snow; the curious eccentricity of country clothing & the mathematical behaviour of umbrella sales. We should never apologise for our obsession with the weather. It is one of the most profound influences on the way we live & something we all experience in common. No wonder it's the natural subject for a greeting between total strangers: ' Turned out nice again.'
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Here is the ultimate one-volume story of Turners life & work. superb colour plates illuminate Turners range dramatic views ...

Improved with colour photography & a friendlier design this classic book takes on new life. Detailed information on all aspects of turning boxes from cutting & seasoning the wood to finishing the piece & easy to follow examples make it easy for any woodworker to learn how to turn a box. The book begins with basic design considerations & the tools & equipment needed. This is followed by detailed instructions for turning each part of the box as well as variations. Each chapter

Includes:: several step-by-step photo essays to lead the reader through the process. The book also

Includes:: a gallery & sections on decorative techniques & finishing.



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A cantankerous elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is Lady Pamelas last loyal retainer out at grass is her one remaining racehorse & in London is the man she should have married
- still her dearest friend. Maeve Delaney streetwise & outrageous & sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela bursts into the old house like a firework. As open warfare settles into an wary truce between the two women Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorse Irish Dancer out of retirement & everything changes.
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