Henry James
For lucidity and compactness of style, James's short novels, or novelles, are shining examples of his genius.Â Â Few other writings of the century have so captured the American imagination.Â Â When ,Daisy Miller,, the tale of the girl from Schenectady, first appeared in 1878, it was an extraordinary success.Â Â James had discovered nothing less than "the American girl"--free spirited, flirtatious, an innocent abroad determined to defy European convention even if it meant scandal . . . or tragedy.Â Â But the subtle danger lurking beneath the surface in ,Daisy Miller, evolves into a classic tale of terror and obsession in ,The Turn Of The Screw,.Â Â "The imagination," Henry James said to Bernard Shaw,Â Â "has a life if its own."Â Â In this blood-curdling story, that imagination weaves the lives of two children, a governess in love with her employer, and a sprawling country house into a flawless story, still unsurpassed as the prototype of modern horror fiction.
Classics,Fiction,Horror,Short Stories,Gothic,Literature,Literature,American,Novella,Literature,19th Century,Mystery
The Turn of the Screw/Daisy Miller