Böcker av Henry James

Two terrifying books bound together in one striking tête-bêche volume: a brand new anthology of morbid, macabre and mysterious masterworks, Shadows Against the Dark: Collected Tales of Horror, is paired with Henry James's definitive Gothic classic The Turn of the Screw.A stranger in a rowboat approaches a schooner in the blackness of night to beg for food. The residents of a secluded town whisper stories about a headless horseman. A poor Hawaiian is convinced to purchase a bottle that contains a being powerful enough to grant any wish. These unsettling stories and more are compiled together for the first time in Shadows Against the Dark: Collected Tales of Horror, edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.A governess, her two child charges, and a house haunted by memories and-perhaps-something much more malevolent. The story has been retold countless times, but never as effectively as in its original form. The Turn of the Screw remains frightening over a century after its initial publication, expertly crafted to create fear in what is explicitly on the page and what is left untold.DOUBLE BOOKED®: Shadows Against the Dark: Collected Tales of Horror / The Turn of the Screw combines renowned authors Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Washington Irving, W. W. Jacobs, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert Louis Stevenson together in one stylish "reversible" paperback.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Princess Casamassima (The Unabridged Edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Princess Casamassima is the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. Amanda Pynsent, an impoverished seamstress, has adopted Hyacinth Robinson, the illegitimate son of her old friend Florentine Vivier, a Frenchwoman of less than sterling repute, and an English lord. Florentine had stabbed her lover to death several years ago, and Pinnie (as Miss Pynsent is nicknamed) takes Hyacinth to see her as she lies dying at Millbank prison. Hyacinth eventually learns that the dying woman is his mother and that she murdered his father. Many years pass. Hyacinth, now a young man and a skilled bookbinder, meets revolutionary Paul Muniment and gets involved in radical politics. Hyacinth also has a coarse but lively girlfriend, Millicent Henning, and one night they go to the theatre. There Hyacinth meets the radiantly beautiful Princess Casamassima... Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Princess Casamassima (The Unabridged Edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

I slutet av 1800-talet anställs en ung kvinna som guvernant hos en förmögen änkling. Det är med vaga villkor som hon packar ihop sin koffert och reser ut på den engelska landsbygden, till slottet Bly, för att undervisa syskonparet Miles och Flora. Till en början är arbetet trivsamt, guvernanten avgudar lilla Flora och hon kommer dessutom väl överens med slottets hushållerska Mrs. Grose. Men lugnet och trivseln ska komma att omkullkastas när barnen plötsligt börjar visa upp tvivelaktiga beteendemönster, samtidigt som guvernanten tycker sig se hotfulla vålnader flanera runt på slottet. Övertygad om att det är spöken som förpestar tillvaron på Bly, börjar hon undersöka husets förflutna, jämsides som hon allt mer paranoidt kämpar med att försöka skydda barnen.Skruvens vridning (The Turn of the Screw) av Henry James gavs ut för första gången år 1898 och har kommit att betraktas som en av de främsta gotiska skräckberättelserna. Hösten 2020 är skräckberättelsen återigen representerad i Netflix-serien The Haunting of Bly Manor.Henry James (1841-1916) föddes in i en förmögen amerikansk familj, men flyttade tidigt till England och blev så småningom engelsk medborgare. Trots den begränsade litterära produktion han lämnade efter sig, är han fortfarande ett stort författarnamn, framför allt i USA och England. Skruvens vridning har filmatiserats otaliga gånger, men troligtvis gjort sig mest känd genom Jack Claytons version från 1961. Henry James valdes 1898 som ledamot på livstid för National Institute of Arts and Letters.

One of Henry James's most enduringly popular works, Daisy Miller, here published in its original 1879 version, is a masterly, psychologically nuanced dissection of social mores and a merciless critique of convention and staid respectability.

This fourteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships old and new, and maximize his income.

This text is the first-and only-modern text to follow the New York Edition, the one which had James's final authority.

Adapted into the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor, the major motion picture The Turning starring Finn Wolfhard, and an opera in London''s West End.ΓÇ£No, noΓÇöthere are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I donΓÇÖt know what I donΓÇÖt seeΓÇöwhat I donΓÇÖt fear!ΓÇ¥In this classic gothic horror ghost story, we follow a young governess and her deep psychological anguish. It begins when she agrees to care for two orphans living in a remote estate, and her sudden conviction that the grounds are haunted.Henry James used the horror genre to imbue the everyday with the uncanny and the unknown. A true measure of his success can be found in the debates still raging today: on topics of the characters'' sanity, the concept of truth in fiction, and the extent to which James manipulates the reader.Written with such exquisite ambiguity, this book will call into question everything you know - but, in The Turn of the Screw, not knowing the truth might be a blessing.The Legend Classics series:Around the World in Eighty DaysThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Importance of Being EarnestAlice''s Adventures in WonderlandThe MetamorphosisThe Railway ChildrenThe Hound of the BaskervillesFrankensteinWuthering HeightsThree Men in a BoatThe Time MachineLittle WomenAnne of Green GablesThe Jungle BookThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other StoriesDraculaA Study in ScarletLeaves of GrassThe Secret GardenThe War of the WorldsA Christmas CarolStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeHeart of DarknessThe Scarlet LetterThis Side of ParadiseOliver TwistThe Picture of Dorian GrayTreasure IslandThe Turn of the ScrewThe Adventures of Tom SawyerEmmaThe TrialA Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan PoeGrimm Fairy TalesThe AwakeningMrs DallowayGulliverΓÇÖs TravelsThe Castle of OtrantoSilas MarnerHard Times

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