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The Aspern papers ([New ed.])

James, HenryCurtis, Anthony(Introduction by)Curtis, Anthony(Edited by)
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The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans.

Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care.

Meanwhile The Aspern Papers explores obsession of a more worldly kind, with its tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on some letters written by a great poet.

Such is his drive, he is quite prepared to use trickery and deception to achieve his aims...

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Penguin Classics
0141439904 / 9780141439907
Paperback
813.4
26/06/2003
United Kingdom
English
Classics
270 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This ed. originally published: 1984. Cover and spine title: The turn of the screw and The Aspern papers.