Henry James

Turn of the Screw (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

To read a story by Henry James is to enter a world-- a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. In this classic novella, a young governess who goes to an isolated English estate to take charge of two precocious children gradually realizes that her young charges are under the evil influence of the ghosts of the family's ex-steward and former governess.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625581617
• Artikelnr.: 49188226

Autorenporträt

Henry James (1843 - 1916) was an iconic figure of nineteenth-century literature. Among his many masterpieces are The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Golden Bowl and Washington Square. As well as fiction, James produced several works of travel literature and biography and was one of the great letter-writers of any age. A contemporary and friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad, James continues to exert a major influence on generations of novelists and writers.

Rezensionen

There are phrases and scenes in the book written with such skill and care and trickery as to make any reader follow it with a great unease . . . It is a very frightening story Colm Tóibín Guardian