Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, Marianne North and George Harvey. A governess takes charge of two children in a country house and becomes convinced that two dead servants are still there and mean to have them. James gives you no way to settle whether she is right, and a century of readers has been unable to agree — the argument is the book. He dictated it aloud to a typist, which may explain the pressure of the voice. Sixty plates from 1821 to 1896, among them scenes by Ford Madox Brown and Francis Montague Holl, picture trials, secrets and a boyhood by the sea, the same uncertain ground the governess stands on.