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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; 1st edition (May 8, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375757406
ISBN-13: 978-0375757402
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sinister, spellbinding, suspenseful, and very hard to put down!, October 12, 2006

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This review is from: Turn of the Screw and in the Cage (Modern Library Classics (Sagebrush)) (School & Library Binding)

Turn of the Screw may be the best haunting story I've ever come across. James is masterful in his unfolding of the tale. His quiet, subtly restrained manner in which he inspires a sense of discomfort and unease in the reader. This story was 'just right', in that everything felt natural and in-character. There was no abruptness, no sense of 'hmmm, page 100 already? Better wrap this up!', no Scooby-Doo sort of ending. He figuratively turns the screw on the reader, by never easing up the tension of the story. Instead, he slowly increases the feeling of dread.

I have not yet read "In the Cage", but eventually plan to. The first story alone made it well worth the purchase price.

The one thing I didn't like was the footnotes. The person who wrote the footnotes should be repeatedly and stingingly slapped with the flat open palm of someone's hand (I'll volunteer for the job). If you have any background in English literature (i.e., you read and understood the Brontes, Jane Austen or Charles Dickens fairly easily), don't bother with looking them up. You'll be annoyed with the time you've wasted cutting out of the story and flipping to the back, just to see something painfully obvious explained out. If you can't derive most of the context of the stuff that's footnoted, just from reading the book, chances are you're not really going to enjoy this book anyway.

That being said, this book still gets five stars from me because I like the fonts and the paper Modern Classics Library uses. I have a number of their books, the bindings seem to hold pretty well, and the cover usually has a tasteful piece of art that usually suits the story inside.

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