Book description
'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was
therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me,
it stopped short'
The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess
sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a
sense of intense evil in the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the
idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care.
Includes a new introduction by David Bromwich examining the novel's
dark ambiguity.
Henry James was born in 1843 in Washington Place, New York, of
Scottish and Irish ancestry. 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.
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.
He has written widely on Hazlitt, Wordsworth, Edmund Burke and modern poetry.
