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The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage

By Henry James
Introduction by Hortense Calisher

By Henry James
Introduction by Hortense Calisher

By Henry James
Introduction by Hortense Calisher

By Henry James
Introduction by Hortense Calisher

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Part of Modern Library Classics

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May 08, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757402

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Aug 22, 2012 | ISBN 9780307824097

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    About The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage

    This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature’s most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James’s most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves…Henry James…can still make us afraid of the dark.

    In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain’s lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.

    About The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage

    This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature’s most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James’s most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves…Henry James…can still make us afraid of the dark.

    In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain’s lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.

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    About Henry James

    Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, on Washington Place in New York to the most intellectually remarkable of American families. His father, Henry James Sr., was a brilliant and eccentric religious philosopher; his brother was one of the… More about Henry James

    About Henry James

    Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, on Washington Place in New York to the most intellectually remarkable of American families. His father, Henry James Sr., was a brilliant and eccentric religious philosopher; his brother was one of the… More about Henry James

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Modern Library
    May 08, 2001 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757402

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Aug 22, 2012 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307824097

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