Sir Edmund Orme

By James, Henry

Book Id: WPLBN0002952053
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File Size: 32.67 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Sir Edmund Orme
Author:	James, Henry
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Horror/Ghost stories
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Sir Edmund Orme
Historic Publication Date:	1892
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago James, B. H. (1892). Sir Edmund Orme. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of his contemporaries? It's generally possible to find earthly interpretations, Freudian and other, for his ghosts. Sir Edmund Orme, though, is unquestionably a real ghost -- except of course that James's unnamed narrator tells the story in the voice of yet a third man, and the narrator himself passes no judgments on the factual nature of what he is reporting (there's a resemblance here to The Turn of the Screw). The story has to do with two love affairs in two generations, and Sir Edmund, real or imagined, plays a role in each. In the end, then, it's still up to the reader to decide on the nature of the ghost, whether he's real or imagined. James gives you no clear answer. (Introduction by Nicholas Clifford))

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Horror/Ghost stories