Daisy Miller ; the turn of the screw
James, Henry, 1843-19161974
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These two short novels, separated by twenty years, were and always have been Henry James's greatest popular successes, and so belong fittingly together in one volume. Daisy Miller, when it appeared in 1878, instantly became an international best-seller. The theme - one which never ceased to intrigue James - is the confrontation of a fresh and courageous American girl with an older and more corrupt Europe. Daisy, a 'free' woman of the West, refuses to yield her innocence. In Rome a spirited American girl will certainly not do as the Romans do. At the end of this brilliantly observed tragicomedy, she died of the mal aria - literally the bad air - of the city. Even more famous, The Turn of the Screw has been made into a film, an opera, a stage play and a television play before audiences its author never dreamed of. What makes it unique, apart from the skill with which the sinister atmosphere is created, is that at the end the reader is left to decide for himself how to interpret the apparitions. As Professor Edel says in his Introduction, 'In its evocation of "gleams and glooms", its narrative tone, its narrative virtuosity, The Turn of the Screw may well be the greatest tale of horror ever written.'
Main title:
Daisy Miller ; the turn of the screw / Henry James, with an introduction by Leon Edel.
Imprint:
Bodley Head, 1974.London : The Bodley Head Ltd, 1974.
Collation:
198 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
037010532X9780370105321
Language:
English
BRN:
286851