The Aspern Papers, The American & The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

• Three of Henry James' best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle book: The Aspern Papers, The American & The Turn of the Screw

The Aspern Papers
The search is on for Juliana Bordereau in Venice, an old lover of the dead American poet Jeffrey Aspern. Our narrator prepares to court a naive spinster, hoping to see some of Aspern's letters and papers but an evil twist is in store.

The American
A social comedy about Christopher Newman, anAmerican businessman on his first tour of Europe. Along the way, he finds a widow from an aristocratic French family.

The Turn of the Screw
Douglas reads a manuscript from a former governess who is now dead. It is the story of how the young governess was hired by a man who lives mainly in London and is not interested in raising his niece and nephew himself after their parents’ death.

About The Author
Henry James (1843 –1916) was an Anglo-American writer who alternated between the U.S. and Europe, spending much of his career in Britain where he became an English subject.
He is well regarded for his novels discussing Americans and their brush with Europeans. His books explore consciousness and perception. His books, particularly later works, have been compared to impressionist painting.

Series: Henry James: American Classics
Novels in the Henry James: American Classics Series are published by Pearl Necklace Books and available through Amazon. They include:
1. The American (1877)
2. The Europeans (1878)
3. Daisy Miller: A Study (1879)
4. Washington Square (1880)
5. The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
6. The Aspern Papers (1888)
7. The Spoils of Poynton (1896)
8. What Maisie Knew (1897)
9. The Turn of the Screw (1898)
10. The Awkward Age (1899)
11. The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
12. The Ambassadors (1903)
13. The Golden Bowl (Volumes I and II) (1904)
14. Italian Hours (1909)
15. The Figure in the Carpet (1916)

560 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 25, 2014

About the author

Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to Impressionist painting.
His novella The Turn of the Screw has garnered a reputation as the most analysed and ambiguous ghost story in the English language and remains his most widely adapted work in other media. He wrote other highly regarded ghost stories, such as "The Jolly Corner".
James published articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, autobiography, and plays. Born in the United States, James largely relocated to Europe as a young man, and eventually settled in England, becoming a British citizen in 1915, a year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916. Jorge Luis Borges said "I have visited some literatures of East and West; I have compiled an encyclopedic compendium of fantastic literature; I have translated Kafka, Melville, and Bloy; I know of no stranger work than that of Henry James."