Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw av Henry James

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<p><b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw </i>by Henry James<br></b><br><b>"I''m a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?"</b><br><br>This edition contains two of Henry James''s most popular short works. <br><br>Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? In <i>Daisy Miller</i> Henry James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.<br><br>Oscar Wilde called James''s chilling <i>The Turn of the Screw </i>''a most wonderful, lurid poisonous little tale''. It tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans