"The Turn of the Screw (World's Classics) - Softcover

James, Henry

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9780192829276: "The Turn of the Screw (World's Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192829270 ISBN 13: 9780192829276

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1992

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Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eerily equivocal. This new edition includes three rarely reprinted ghost stories from the 1890s, "Sir Edmund Orme," "Owen Wingrave," and "The Friends of the Friends," as well as relevant extracts from James's notebooks and journals.

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Review:

"A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale" (Oscar Wilde)

"It really does turn your blood cold" (Colm T�ib�n)

"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)

Book Description:

The famous and terrifying story in an edition which includes a unique selection of Henry James's ghost stories

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