A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It's her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things - the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?

The turn of the screw

Pneumologie

She rode with him sometimes in the tufty shadow of aqueducts and tombs, and sometimes suffered him to show his beautiful wife at Roman dinners and balls. She played dominoes with him after dinner, and carried out in a desultory way a daily scheme of reading him the newspapers. This observance was subject to fluctuations caused by the Counts invincible tendency to go to sleep, a failing his wife never attempted to disguise or palliate. She would sit and brush the flies from him while he lay picturesquely snoozing, and, if I ventured near him, would place her linger on her lips and whisper that she thought her husband was as handsome asleep as awake.

Le dernier des Valerii

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Le Tour d'écrou est sans doute le plus célèbre des récits de Henry James. Récit, c'est-à-dire plus qu'une nouvelle et moins qu'un roman : l'exacte mesure pour mener à son terme la plus perfide stratégie narrative qu'on puisse imaginer. Car que raconte Le Tour d'écrou ? L'histoire de deux enfants que viennent hanter sous les yeux désespérés d'une jeune gouvernante impuissante, les fantômes dépravés qui se jouent de leur innocence envoûtée ? Ou l'histoire d'une jeune femme qu'un mélange d'éducation rigoriste et de vagues rêveries sentimentales mène à la névrose hallucinatoire, et que l'obsession du mal - on voudrait que l'anglais permît le même jeu de mots que le français -conduit à un délire où un garçon de dix ans trouve la mort ? Histoire de fantômes ou histoire de fantasmes ? L'auteur, avec une virtuosité diabolique, ne choisit pas entre ces interprétations, préférant donner, jusqu'à la dernière ligne de son récit, un "tour d'écrou", de plus à l'angoisse de son lecteur.

Le Tour d'écrou

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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-81 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of James's early period, this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, and betrayal.
The Bostonians by Henry James was first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics.
The Tragic Muse by Henry James was first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who vacillates between a political career and his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success. A huge cast of supporting characters help and hinder their pursuits.
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June-July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.
Henry James (1843 -  1916) was an American-born British writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

The Portrait of a Lady + The Bostonians + The Tragic Muse + Daisy Miller (4 Unabridged Classics)

Au divorce de ses parents, Maisie est l'objet d'un jugement de Salomon, "coupée par moitié, et les tronçons jetés impartialement aux deux adversaires." Enjeu et instrument de la haine que se vouent ses géniteurs avant d'être rejetée comme un témoin gênant, elle est la spectatrice passive de l'égoïsme des adultes. A travers son regard innocent et lucide, Henry James compose une peinture ironique des passions humaines. Ce roman est le tour de force d'un maître en psychologie, la recréation d'une âme enfantine et du monde qui l'entoure, où l'analyse minutieuse des sentiments, d'une profondeur remarquable, laisse le lecteur émerveillé.

Ce que savait Maisie

Dans un palais vénitien, somptueux et ruiné, rôde le fantôme d'un poète disparu dont on se dispute sans merci les manuscrits, les souvenirs et jusqu'à la mémoire. Chaque personnage avance masqué, chacun joue et triche. On imagine encore la victime de ce jeu, mais le piège est tendu. La plus sordide des tractations se prépare, celle où un être pourrait servir de monnaie d'échange.

The turn of the screw

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