The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The Friends of the Friends and The Jolly Corner
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Oct '07
Should be back in stock very soon
The famous and terrifying story in an edition which includes a unique selection of Henry James's ghost stories
*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor*
Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children.
*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor*
Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and 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 and more convinced that something evil is watching her.
'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde
A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale -- Oscar Wilde
It really does turn your blood cold -- Colm Tóibín
Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he's wonderful -- David Lodge
Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry -- Graham Greene
[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation -- T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780099511236
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 181g
256 pages