The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classics)
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a  world--a rich,  perfectly crafted domain of vivid  language and splendid, complex  characters. Devious  children, sparring lovers, capricious American  girls,  obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters and charming  Europeans  populate these five fascinatingNouvelles--works which  represent the  author in both his early and late phases. From the   apparitions of evil that haunt the governess inThe Turn Of The  Screwto the  startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man inThe Beast In The Jungle, the mysterious turnings of human  behavior are skillfully and  coolly observed--proving Henry James to be  a master of  psychological insight as well as one of the finest   stylists of modern English literature.