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A jealous ghost

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  • "Een labiele Amerikaanse studente, die in Londen werkt aan haar proefschrift over Henry James, gaat steeds meer feiten en fictie met elkaar verwarren, hetgeen rampzalige gevolgen heeft."
  • "There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's THE TURN OF THE SCREW, the subject of her Ph.D. thesis. There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies for a temporary job as a nanny in a large country house. She seems to display astonishing naivety as she builds a fantasy about her emotional future there. Surely she can see it is all delusion? But a progressively darker reality unfolds, leading to a terrible and shocking climax."
  • "Sallie Declan, the heroine of this erudite and compelling little novel, is a 27-year-old American in London writing her PhD on Henry James's famous ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. Her friends joke that she is the i̜nnocent Jamesian heroine let loose among the social complexities of old Europe; in reality, she is sad, friendless and adrift, having been invited into only one English home that of her well-meaning professor in the eight months since she stepped off the plane. Struggling with her thesis, and feeling increasingly bleak, Sallie decides to take some time out and see the real England. So she lands a job as a temporary nanny to the children of Charles Masters, a high-flying City lawyer who spends much of his time abroad. The children's mother, Sallie assumes, is dead."

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  • "Miscellaneous fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"

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  • "Un esprit jaloux"
  • "A jealous ghost"@en
  • "A jealous ghost"
  • "A Jealous Ghost"@es

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