The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any otherΓÇöa rich,perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendidcomplex characters. Devious childrensparring loverscapricious American girlsobtuse bachelorssibylline spinstersand charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelleswhich represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in ΓÇ£The Turn of the ScrewΓÇ¥ to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in ΓÇ£The Beast in the JungleΓÇ¥ the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observedΓÇöproving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature.