{"product_id":"9780141974705","title":"Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTravelling 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 \u003ci\u003eDaisy Miller\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde called James's chilling \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw \u003c\/i\u003e'a most wonderful, lurid poisonous little tale'. It tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the houses, she soon becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108783931632,"sku":"9780141974705","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141974705_p0.jpg?v=1763656408","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141974705","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}