Memory And The Past

The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End

James, Henry

This collection pairs Henry James's ambiguous ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," in which a governess at a country estate perceives spectral threats to her charges, with the lighter social comedy "Covering End," in which a penniless heir must choose between his political principles and his ancestral home, with a wealthy American woman's intervention determining the outcome of both.

The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

In 1920s Long Island, Nick Carraway narrates the tragic downfall of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who throws extravagant parties in a desperate attempt to win back his lost love Daisy Buchanan, only to be destroyed by the very materialism and moral decay that defines the world he sought to enter.