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Book at Bedtime: A BBC Radio Collection

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Spooky Tales from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, M.R. James and many more

Classic Ghost Stories

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The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories

Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & The Turn of the Screw

BBC Classics: Suspense Collection

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10 full-cast dramatisations

The Henry James BBC Radio Drama Collection

Prepare to be gripped by this prequel series to R.D. Wingfield's A Touch of Frost. 
 
Back in Denton, Detective Sergeant Jack Frost returns to investigating murders, finding missing children, and discovering dead bodies in woodland areas. With Detective Inspector Williams missing, and a new policeman, DS Waters, to mentor, DS Jack Frost has to put the stresses and straings of his personal life on hold in order to keep Denton safe.

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Frost at Midnight

Daisy Miller and Other Tales

The finest editions available of the world's greatest classics from Homer to Achebe, Tolstoy to Ishiguro, Proust to Pullman, printed on a fine acid-free, cream-wove paper that will not discolour with age, with sewn, full cloth bindings and silk ribbon markers, and at remarkably low prices. All books include substantial introductions by major scholars and contemporary writers, and comparative chronologies of literary and historical context.

The Ambassadors

The Figure in the Carpet

The Portrait of a Lady

The Aspern Papers and Other Tales

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Morning Frost

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The Portrait Of A Lady (Classic Serial)

The Wings Of The Dove (Classic Serial)

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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

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A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale

Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he's wonderful

Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry

[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation

The Turn of the Screw is the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read in any literature, ancient or modern

We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves... Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark

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

*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

The famous and terrifying story in an edition which includes a unique selection of Henry James's ghost stories

Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 in New York to a wealthy and intellectual family and as a youth travelled widely and studied in Europe. He briefly studied law at Harvard before he took up writing full-time. His first novel, Watch and Ward, was published in 1871 and many followed including Roderick Hudson (1875), Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). He also wrote short stories, reviews, biographies, plays and travel books. After a brief period in Paris, James moved to London.He later settled in Rye in Sussex and became a British citizen in 1915. Henry James died on 28 February 1916.

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

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

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