The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The Friends of the Friends and The Jolly Corner

Summary

*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor*

Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.


A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets of the house she becomes more and more convinced that something evil is watching her.

'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde

Reviews

  • A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale
    Oscar Wilde

About the author

Henry James

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.
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