The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
Author: Henry James
The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window, where, at the sight of me, it stopped short’Oscar Wilde called James’s chilling The Turn of the Screw ‘a most wonderful, lurid poisonous little tale.’ It tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense….Read More
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