Book description
"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice
girl that was not?"
This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works.
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely
beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman
Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately
flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or
is she simply ignorant of those conventions? In Daisy Miller
Henry James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and
dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to
dominate his later masterpieces.
Oscar Wilde called James's chilling The Turn of the Screw 'a
most wonderful, lurid poisonous little tale'. It tells of a young
governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles
and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the houses, she
soon becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are
stalking the children in her care.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
