The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
"The Turn of the Screwis the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read in any literature, ancient or modern."  —Independent"We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves . . . Henry James . . . can still make us afraid of the dark."  —Virginia Woolf"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry."  —Graham Greene"A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale."  —Oscar Wilde"It really does turn your blood cold."  —Colm Tóibín"Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he’s wonderful."  —David Lodge"[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation."  —T. S. Eliot--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.