- Governesses, fiction, Children, fiction, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, fantasy
The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
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Intimate, grave, earnest and bleak.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Henry James
- First published
- November 6, 2003
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Tribeca Books, IndyPublish.com, Prentice-Hall International
- Editions
- 563
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9798549501805
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- Governesses, fiction
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- Fiction, ghost
- Fiction, fantasy
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“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as on Christmas Eve in an old house a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to note it as the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.”
Henry James, was an American writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
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