Author guideUnited States / EnglandLate nineteenth-century psychological fiction

Authors

Henry James

1843 to 1916

American-born novelist and critic whose fiction became a training ground for ambiguity, perception, and finely shaded consciousness.

James matters because he made interpretation itself part of the reading experience.

Why this author stays central

The Turn of the Screw remains the most compact James entry in this catalogue.

  • James's later style is famously dense, but The Turn of the Screw still works as a gateway through suspense.

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Shelf

4/5

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

Excellent once you enjoy uncertainty as a feature rather than a flaw in a ghost story.

ghost storypsychological fictiongothic

Difficulty

4/5

Length

short

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