The turn of the screw and Daisy Miller
Record details
- ISBN: 0440391547
- ISBN: 9780440391548
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Physical Description:
191 pages ; 17 cm
print - Publisher: [New York] : [Dell Pub. Co.], [1954]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Turn of the screw -- Daisy Miller. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.3 10 5999. |
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Subject: | Europe Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Young women Fiction Americans Europe Fiction Orphans Fiction Governesses Fiction |
Genre: | Horror fiction. Ghost stories. Psychological fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Poplar Bluff Municipal Library District.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Poplar Bluff - Main Library. (Show preferred library)
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Poplar Bluff - Main Library | FIC JAMES (Text) | 38420100482021 | FICTION | Available | - |
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Summary
The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller
For lucidity and compactness of style, James's short novels, or novelles, are shining examples of his genius.  Few other writings of the century have so captured the American imagination.  When Daisy Miller, the tale of the girl from Schenectady, first appeared in 1878, it was an extraordinary success.  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.  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.  "The imagination," Henry James said to Bernard Shaw,  "has a life if its own."  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.