The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave - Macmillan Collector's Library (Hardback)
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The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave - Macmillan Collector's Library (Hardback)

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Hardback 216 Pages
Published: 06/09/2018
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Henry James’s classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE.

A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children – but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. She soon begins to see sinister figures at the window, but do they exist solely in her imagination, or are they ghosts intent on a terrible and devastating task? The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is one of the most famous and eerily equivocal ghost stories ever written.

Owen Wingrave is the story of a son in a long line of military heroes who refuses to follow tradition, yet proves his bravery in a haunted room.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509850945
Number of pages: 216
Weight: 144 g
Dimensions: 159 x 101 x 17 mm


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There are phrases and scenes in the book written with such skill and care and trickery as to make any reader follow it with a great unease . . . It is a very frightening story - Colm Tóibín, Guardian

In this age of anxiety, in which a child may be in her room and yet, through a laptop, can be anywhere in the world, The Turn of the Screw is particularly resonant – every parent’s battle to protect their children from unnamed malevolence - Gillian Flynn, New York Times Book Review

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“Classic Ghost Story”

I had heard about "The Turn of the Screw" in ghost story book-lists and know that it has been adapted to film. Being a fan of ghost stories I was keen to read and see for myself. It is a good read. The... More

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“The Classic English Horror Story.”

Part Ghost story, part Haunted House. This is the Classic English Horror Novel and a must-read for any horror fan. A newly appointed governess arrives to take care of two children but soon feels the presence of an... More

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“Cleverly constructed thriller”

This is a fascinating exploration of reality and sanity redolent of Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Double’. James writes in a deliberately florid style which contributes to the ambiguity necessary to the plot.

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