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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100553210599
ISBN-139780553210590
eBay Product ID (ePID)724021
Product Key Features
Book TitleTurn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
Number of Pages560 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year1981
GenreFiction
AuthorHenry James
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
Grade FromNinth Grade
Grade ToTwelfth Grade
SynopsisTo read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any othera rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in "The Turn of the Screw" to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in "The Beast in the Jungle," the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observedproving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature., To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other--a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in "The Turn of the Screw" to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in "The Beast in the Jungle," the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observed--proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature.