The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In <b>The Turn of the Screw</b> a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion We are afraid of something unnamed of something perhaps in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark.<br><br>In his rarely anthologized novella <b>In the Cage</b> James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever rebellious heroine of Britain's lower middle class. Hortense Calisher in her Introduction calls it a delicious story the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.