This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...
Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark.
In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain's lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.
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Henry James Introduction by:
Hortense Calisher Imprint: Modern Library Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 132mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 221g ISBN:9780375757402 ISBN 10: 0375757406 Series:Modern Library Classics Pages: 270 Publication Date:15 May 2001 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage
""[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation."" --T. S. Eliot