The Turn of the Screw: (Vintage Edition)
- ISBN-10
- 154498362X
- ISBN-13
- 9781544983622
- Pages
- 82
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-03-29
- Author
- H. James
Description
The Turn of t he Screw by H. James. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a ClassicThis book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales".
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