The Aspern Papers & the Turn of the Screw (English Library) - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140432248 ISBN 13: 9780140432244

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1984

Synopsis

A story of 'spoils and stratagems', The Aspern Papers is set in a crumbling Venetian palazzo, where an old woman treasures up some letters sent to her by the great American poet, Aspern. When a zealous literary historian arrives and attempts to prise the letters from her, he finds his charm, ingenuity and morals stretched to breaking point.
'It is a most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' wrote Oscar Wilde of The Turn of the Screw, James's most puzzling and controversial work. In the story of a governess newly in charge of two small children, haunted by ghosts, our imagination is miraculously set free to conjure up terrors never precisely named or explained.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York of Scottish and Irish ancestry. He studied in New York, London, Geneva and Paris. In Paris he met literary figures such as Flaubert and Turgenev. He wrote some twenty novels, many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel.
Geoffrey Moore is General editor for works of Henry James in Penguin Classics.
Anthony Curtis was Literary Editor of the Financial Times for twenty years.

Synopsis:

A literary historian develops a scheme to gain possession of love letters written by an American poet, and a governess tries to protect the two young children in her care from the ghosts she perceives haunting them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140432248
• ISBN 13: 9780140432244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Curtis Anthony