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*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



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A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale -- Oscar Wilde
It really does turn your blood cold -- Colm Tóibín
Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he's wonderful -- David Lodge
Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry -- Graham Greene
[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation -- T. S. Eliot

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 4 October 2007
      ISBN-13 9780099511236
      978-0099511236
      ISBN-10 0099511231
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      *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



      Trade Review
      A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale -- Oscar Wilde
      It really does turn your blood cold -- Colm Tóibín
      Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he's wonderful -- David Lodge
      Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry -- Graham Greene
      [James] is the most intelligent man of his generation -- T. S. Eliot

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