The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By Henry JamesThe governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By Henry JamesI remember that the book I had in my hand was Fielding's “Amelia”;1 also that I was wholly awake. I recall further both a general conviction that it was horribly late and a particular objection to looking at ...
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By Henry James... Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's sentimental novel Paul et Virginie (1788) told of young love on a tropical island. THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS 84.7. the 'Long': the long (summer) vacation. 89.17. an entétement: “an obstimacy'. 94.17.
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By Henry JamesThe SPR acquired a much-needed mantle of respectability when philosopher and Cambridge don Henry Sidgwick agreed to serve as its first president. Sidgwick had been part of a society formed in the 1850s at Cambridge's Trinity College to ...
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The Friends of the Friends and...
By Henry James*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor* Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, the Friends of the Friends and...
By Henry JamesSeveral other of Henry James's most gruesome horror stories are also included, among themThe Jolly Corner, Owen Wingrave, The Private Life, The Real Right Thing, andSir Edmund Orme.
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
By Henry JamesWhether 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...