The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers

By Henry James

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James pairs two short novels, published in 1898 and 1888. In The Turn of the Screw, a young governess is hired to care for two children at a remote English country house and comes to believe that the estate is haunted. In The Aspern Papers, an editor schemes to obtain the private letters of a dead American poet from the poet's elderly former lover in Venice.

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• Margaret Atwood: “Or such masterpieces of the weird as "Whistle and I'll Come to You" (M. R. James), or "The Turn of the Screw" (Henry James), or "The Martian" (Ray Bradbury)?”