Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James′s THE TURN OF THE SCREW is an eerie Victorian masterpiece.When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it i
Six classic stories-one volume This indispensible anthology collects the short novels of Henry James, offering readers the full range of his skill and vision-the singular art and imagination of an aut
亨利.詹姆士(Henry James, 1843–1916),美國作家。父親老亨利.詹姆斯是著名學者,兄長威廉.詹姆斯(William James)是知名的哲學家和心理學家。亨利.詹姆士一生未娶,但社交生活活躍,長期旅居歐洲,對十九世紀末的歐美上層生活有入微的觀察。他一生創作小說二十餘部,也寫了許多短篇故事、中篇小說、劇本、雜誌文章和旅遊書籍。《碧廬冤孽》(The Turn of the Scre
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and c
An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that some
A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she’s at first charmed by the children but gradually she suspects that they may