The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
I'm a fearful frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not? This edition
contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family
Daisy Miller an exquisitely beautiful young American woman presents her fellow-countryman
Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention
in the outspoken way she talks and acts or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? In
Daisy Miller Henry James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously
independent American woman a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces. Oscar
Wilde called James's chilling The Turn of the Screw 'a most wonderful lurid poisonous little
tale'. It tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans
Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the houses she soon becomes
obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. The
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