The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories [Audiobook] download free by Henry James
- Listen audiobook: The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
- Author: Henry James
- Release date: 2008/9/1
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9780199536177
- Rating: 8.9 of 10
- Votes: 600
- Review by: Daniella Olivo
- Review rating: 8.84 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/22
- Duration: 4H16M40S in 256 kbps (67.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WAV, WMA, FLAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 (compression ZIP, RPM, RAR, EML)
- Total pages original book: 336
- Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 29M24S (7.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme', `Owen Wingrave', and `The Friends of the Friends' - `The Turn of the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's `infernal imagination', which torments but also entrals her? `The Turn of the Screw' is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, `the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Short Story Books, Horror, Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Classic Books & Novels
- Download servers: Mediafire, UsersCloud, 4Shared, FileServe, MEGA. Compressed in ZIP, RPM, RAR, EML
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 8.24 USD
- Dimensions: 128x196x17mm
- Weight: 232g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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