The Turn of the Screw, the Aspern Papers, and Two Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) FROM OUR EDITORS
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
Joseph Conrad once said of his friend Henry James, “As is
meet for a man of his descent and tradition, Mr. James is the historian
of fine consciences.” As it turns out, James was also incredibly
gifted at writing exceptional ghost stories. This
collection—including “The Beast in the Jungle”
and “The Jolly Corner”—features James’s
finest supernatural tales, along with criticism, a discussion of the
legacies of James’s writing, and provocative study questions.
David LeHardy Sweet is a professor of American and comparative
literature at The American University in Cairo. He has also taught at
Princeton, The City University of New York, The American University of
Paris, and Columbia University, where he received his doctorate in
Comparative Literature. His book Savage Sight/Constructed Noise:
Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American
Avant-Gardes will be published next year by the University of
North Carolina.