Pierre finished reading The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics) by Henry James
A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent …
I made the error of starting with the forewords and introductions, which are very long and extremely tedious, and seem to have been mercifully cut short by the editor.
The short stories are very nicely crafted, short in all aspects, but have very vivid characters, often creating a sense of proximity with the reader. I most probably won't read them again, but I'm glad I read them.