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Henry James (1843-1916) is one of America's premier writers of fiction. His famous novella The Turn of the Screw (1898), concerning the governess of two small children who thinks that her charges are being haunted by ghosts, brilliantly illustrates James's theory of the horror story: to suggest rather than state horror. A true psychological thriller as well as an acute study of obsession, The Turn of the Screw leaves open whether the children are being "corrupted" by malevolent spirits or by their neurotic governess. The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonist--a gifted young writer--meets and befriends a famous author he has long idolized, he is both repelled by and attracted to the artist's great secret: the emotional costs of a life dedicated to art. With extraordinary psychological insight and devastating wit, the novella asks the question of whether art is, ultimately, demeaning or ennobling for the artist, while capturing the ambiguities of a life devoted to art, and the choices artists must make.
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The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
October 30, 1998, Penguin Books
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
September 11, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
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The turn of the screw: & The lesson of the master
1996, Prometheus Books
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
1992, Oxford University Press
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The Turn of the Screw
1991, Dover Publications, The Modern Library
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The turn of the screw: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism
1989, WW Norton
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The Turn of the Screw
February 1983, Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
1969, Penguin, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The turn of the screw.: An authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism.
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Otra vuelta de tuerca está considerada la historia de fantasmas por antonomasia y un hito insoslayable en la historia de la literatura universal. Protagonizada por una joven institutriz al cuidado de dos niños en una mansión victoriana, a lo largo de la narración intervienen presencias y personajes tal vez sobrenaturales. La anterior institutriz y el sirviente murieron en extrañas circunstancias. ¿Cuál es el secreto que se oculta entre los muros de la mansión? Para descubrirlo, el autor nos conducirá magistralmente por los vericuetos de la historia en un sostenido e inquietante crescendo.
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