The Turn of the Screw [antikvár]

Introduction'They ii>erc a wickcd pair,' Mrs Grose said, 'but what can they do now? They're dead.''They're still here . . . They can still take Miles and Flora from us!'A young lady has come to a big country house to teach two young children. It is her first job and she is alone with the housekeeper, Mrs Grose. Strange things begin to happen. She sees a man on the roof of the house, and a woman by the lake, dressed in black.The man and woman are dead, so these are their ghosts. What do they want? Who are they looking for? And why?A terrible story of fear and danger begins. The children are beautiful but are they good? Can the new governess help the children? Or will the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel take Miles and Flora away?Henry James wrote this famous story in 1898. He wrote it for an American magazine named Collier's. Later he put it into a book. It is one of the most famous ghost stories written in English. Benjamin Britten used the story to make a musical play with the same title.Henry James was an American, born in New York in 1843. His father was a well-known writer and speaker, and his brother, William James, was a famous university teacher. As a young man, Henry James travelled widely in Europe and he also studied law at Harvard University. He began to write short stories in 1865. He moved to England in 1876 and stayed there for the rest of his life. He lived in the small town of Rye on the south coast. Many famous writers came to visit him there: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and H. G. Wells. Wells became one of his greatest friends. Henry James wrote many famous books, among them