“If a child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?”
“I don’t know what I don’t see, what I don’t fear!”
“Miles and Flora saw more — things terrible and unguessable.”
“For there again, against the glass ... was the hideous author of our woe — the white face of damnation.”
“I want my own sort!”
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly. In October 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.
Henry James OM was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
“If a child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?”
“I don’t know what I don’t see, what I don’t fear!”
“Miles and Flora saw more — things terrible and unguessable.”
“For there again, against the glass ... was the hideous author of our woe — the white face of damnation.”
“I want my own sort!”
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly. In October 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.
Henry James OM was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
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Tras dos estancias en Europa, Henry James (Nueva York, 1843 –Sussex, Inglaterra, 1916) publicó en 1875, su primera novela, Roderick Hudston. Más tarde, vivió durante dos años en París, donse conoció a alagunos de los grandes maestros europeos de la época (Turgenev, Flaubert y Zola), que influyeron decisivamente en su estilo. En 1876, tras escribir El americano, se estableció en Inglaterra, donde publicó sus obras más conocidas: Daisy Miller (1879), Washington Square (1880), El sitio de Londres (1883), Los papeles de Aspern (1888), Lo que Maisie sabía (1897) y Otra vuelta de tuerca (1898), en las que demostró su habilidad para mostrar la lucha entre deseo y convención, y aportó una visión crítica de la moral americana. Para muchos Henry James es el precursor de la novela psicológica moderna y la principal influencia de autores tan importantes como James Joyce o Virginia Woolf
