The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels

Henry James (1843–1916) spent his early life in America but often traveled with his celebrated family to Europe. After briefly attending Harvard, he began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines. Later, he visited Europe and began Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875, he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola and wrote The American. In 1876, he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. His other famous works include The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassma (1886), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject.

出版者:Signet Classics

作者:Henry James

页数:449

出版时间:2007-9-4

价格:$4.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780451530677

丛书系列:Signet Classics

图书标签:英文原版classicHenryJamesClassics

A collection of six short novels from the celebrated author of The Portrait of a Lady and Washington Square... By turns chilling, funny, tragic, and profound, Henry James’s short novels allow readers to experience the full range of his skills and vision. The title story, a chilling masterpiece of psychological terror, mixes the phantoms of the mind with those of the supernatural. “Daisy Miller,” the tale of a provincial American girl in Rome that established James’s literary reputation, and “An International Episode” are superb examples of his focus on the clash between American and European values. And in “The Aspern Papers,” “The Alter of the Dead,” and “The Beast in the Jungle,” the author’s remarkable sense of irony, his love of plot twists, and his view of male-female relationships find exquisite expression.

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You HAVE TO read The Turn of the Screw. it's exhausting coz you never know what's REALLY going on, but it's fascinating, creepy, thrilling.

You HAVE TO read The Turn of the Screw. it's exhausting coz you never know what's REALLY going on, but it's fascinating, creepy, thrilling.

没想到Henry James这么会写ghost story！开篇的俄罗斯套娃（？）式叙事有点意思 扣一星纯粹因为风格还是有维多利亚残留（我是跟维多利亚文学多大仇...

没想到Henry James这么会写ghost story！开篇的俄罗斯套娃（？）式叙事有点意思 扣一星纯粹因为风格还是有维多利亚残留（我是跟维多利亚文学多大仇...

没想到Henry James这么会写ghost story！开篇的俄罗斯套娃（？）式叙事有点意思 扣一星纯粹因为风格还是有维多利亚残留（我是跟维多利亚文学多大仇...