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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature''s most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James''s most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark.

In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain''s lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.

The Turn of the Screw in the Cage

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    A Paperback / softback by Henry James, Hortense Calisher

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 08/05/2001
      ISBN13: 9780375757402, 978-0375757402
      ISBN10: 0375757406

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature''s most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James''s most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark.

      In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain''s lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.

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