Novelas clásicas: Otra vuelta de tuerca (Paperback)

from PilgrimJess

"No, no-there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see-what I don't fear!" This is my first Henry James book (novella really) and having read it has left me with very mixed feelings about so much so t...

from booklove2

Eh, I could take this or leave it. The wording on most of the sentences seemed intentionally convoluted to me. I hope all of Henry James isn't written like this. (This is my first Henry James.) I love a good Gothic story, but this is not the one for me. *Book #135 I have read of the '1001 Books Y...

from JimDR

A true classic, creepy and enthralling and elegant. I find the lush old language to be almost comforting.

from Cecrow

At the start I was having 'Jane Eyre' flashbacks - a governess, a pleasant young girl as her charge, a housekeeper for her primary company, a love interest in the handsome but absent landowner, an isolated manor in the English countryside. Henry James knows this; he is winking at us when the narr...

from veevoxvoom

Any writer can make a cemetery or haunted house scary, but a good writer can make terrifying the absolutely ordinary. Henry James does this in Turn of the Screw, which is a ghost story about a governess who finds herself stuck with loving but haunted charges. This short novel is densely written, ...