It is January 1895 and Henry Jamess play Guy Domville from which he hoped tomake his fortune has failed on the London stage. Opening with this disaster<strong>T... » 

It is January 1895 and Henry Jamess play Guy Domville from which he hoped tomake his fortune has failed on the London stage. Opening with this disasterThe Master spans the next five years of Jamess life during which time hemoves to Rye in Sussex having found his dream retreat. There he writes hisshort masterpiece The Turn Of The Screw a tale in which he incorporates manydetails from his own life including his experiences as a member of one of thegreat eccentric American families and later an exile in England. Impelled bythe need to work and haunted by his past including his failure to fight inthe American Civil War and the golden summer of 1865 and the death of hissister Alice James is watchful and witty relishing the England in which hehas come to live and regretting the New England he has left. «