The Turn Of The Screw & Owen Wingrave

by HENRY JAMES

2021-02-01 02:41:39

Two terrifying ghost stories from master storyteller Henry James, featuring an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse.In The Turn of the Screw, a young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated ... Read more
Two terrifying ghost stories from master storyteller Henry James, featuring an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse.In The Turn of the Screw, a young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children - but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. She soon begins to see sinister figures at the window, but do they exist solely in her imagination, or are they ghosts intent on a terrible and devastating task? Originally published in 1898, The Turn of the Screw is one of the most famous and eerily equivocal ghost stories ever written.In James''s 1892 short story Owen Wingrave, the son in a long line of military heroes, who refuses to follow tradition, proves his bravery in a haunted room. Less

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Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 Feb 1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be am...

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