Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller - Brossura

James, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0440391547 ISBN 13: 9780440391548

Casa editrice: Dell Pub Co, 1996

Riassunto

In his two short novels, James portrays a distraught governess obsessed by ghosts and an ingenue who unwittingly violates the social code of the American elite in Europe

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"The Turn Of The Screw  seems to have proved more fascinating to the general reading public than anything else of James's except Daisy Miller."--Edmund Wilson

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and compactness of style, James's short novels, or novelles, are shining examples of his genius.  Few other writings of the century have so captured the American imagination.  When Daisy Miller, the tale of the girl from Schenectady, first appeared in 1878, it was an extraordinary success.  James had discovered nothing less than "the American girl"--free spirited, flirtatious, an innocent abroad determined to defy European convention even if it meant scandal . . . or tragedy.  But the subtle danger lurking beneath the surface in Daisy Miller evolves into a classic tale of terror and obsession in The Turn Of The Screw.  "The imagination," Henry James said to Bernard Shaw,  "has a life if its own."  In this blood-curdling story, that imagination weaves the lives of two children, a governess in love with her employer, and a sprawling country house into a flawless sto

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• Editore: Dell Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0440391547
• ISBN 13: 9780440391548
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192