by Henry James · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140815696
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«The Turn of the Screw» is Henry James's ghost novel in the Penguin Readers collection, in paperback (48 pages, in English).
A young governess arrives at an English country mansion and soon believes she sees unsettling figures that could be ghosts or products of her imagination. The atmosphere of mystery and suspense becomes increasingly oppressive.
Abridged edition from the Penguin Readers collection; Henry James's original story appeared in 1898.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language and for those seeking a brief first approach to the classics of mystery.
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
