The Turn of the Screw And Other Short Novels - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451526066 ISBN 13: 9780451526069

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

A collection of short novels includes the title work, a chilling classic of psychological terror, as well as Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, An International Episode, The Altar of the Dead, and The Beast of the Jungle. Reissue.

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Review:

Much imitated ... but no one comes near the finesse of the master ( The Times)

Timelessly unsettling ( Guardian)

About the Author:

Henry James (1843-1916) spent his early life in America but often traveled with his celebrated family to Europe. After briefly attending Harvard, he began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines. Later, he visited Europe and began Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875, he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola and wrote The American. In 1876, he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. His other famous works include The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassma (1886), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject.

Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Singular Mark Twain, A Biography; Gore Vidal, A Biography; Henry James, The Imagination of Genius and Charles Dickens, A Biography. His Thomas Carlyle was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a jury-nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other works include Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature, Dickens and Mesmerism: the Hidden Spring of Fiction, and Miracles of Rare Device: The Poet's Sense of Self in Nineteenth-Century Poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0451526066
• ISBN 13: 9780451526069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456