The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories, by
Henry James, is part of the
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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 L. 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.
