Sinopsis de THE TURN OF THE SCREW AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from who? The novella is accompanied here by several more tales exploring human psychology through ghostly visitations and the uncanny, including 'The Romance of Certain Old Clothes', 'The Last of the Valerii', 'Sir Edmund Orme', 'Owen Wingrave', 'The Friend of the Friends', 'The Third Person' and 'The Jolly Corner'. This is the final volume of three new Penguin Classics collections representing the best of Henry James's short fiction. The other volumes are 'The Aspern Papers and Other Tales', focussing on themes of art and literature, and 'Daisy Miller and Other Tales', exploring Anglo-American relations.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141389752
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
Fecha de lanzamiento: 26/05/2017
Año de edición: 2017
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Henry James
Henry James (Nova York, 1843-Londres, 1916) foi un escritor e crítico que traballou xéneros literarios que van da crítica social á novela gótica, onde analiza a sociedade neoiorquina de finais do século XIX, afondando na psicoloxía das personaxes e creando protagonistas femininas que loitan por atopar o seu espazo vital diante dos prexuízos sociais da época. Destaca por ser o primeiro escritor do seu tempo interesado en desentrañar a psicoloxía feminina. En palabras de Graham Greene: “Quizais Washington Square sexa a única novela onde un home é quen de invadir o campo feminino producindo unha obra comparable ás de Jane Austen”.