The volume also includes James's great novella The Turn of the Screw, perhaps the most ambiguous and disturbing ghost story ever written. They include 'The Jolly Corner', a compelling story of psychological doubling 'Owen Wingrave', which is also a subtle parable of military tradition 'The Friends of the Friends', a strange story of uncanny love and 'The Private Life', which finds a shrewd, high comedy in its ghostly theme. The stories range widely in tone and type. The reason the Archbishop told the story, James writes, was because talk turned. This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. James first heard the nut of the tale from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson, who had forgotten most of the details and butchered it one evening shortly after Christmas. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. Book.Description With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Burrage Afterward by Edith Wharton The Wardrobe by Thomas Mann The Buick Saloon by Ann Bridge The Tower by Marghanita Laski Footsteps in the Snow by Mario Soldati The Wind by Ray Bradbury Exorcizing Baldassare by Edward Hyams The Leaf-Sweeper by Muriel Spark Dear Ghost by Fielden Hughes Sonata for Harp and Bicycle by Joan Aiken Come and Get Me by Elizabeth Walker Andrina by George Mackay Brown The Axe by Penelope Fitzgerald The Game of Dice by Alain Danielou and The July Ghost by A. James The Return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling My Adventure in Norfolk by A. Hoffman Wandering Willie's Tale by Walter Scott The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant Mr Justice Harbottle by Sheridan Le Fanu Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant Sir Edmund Orme by Henry James Aneline or the Haunted House by Emile Zola The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce A Haunted Island by Algernon Blackwood The Rose Garden by M. This anthology contains: The Beggarwoman of Locarno by Heinrich von Kleist The Entail by E. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine ink mark on the upper edge of the text block no interior markings. Please note, this is a somewhat heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal.
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