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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Henry James
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A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead.

Like the other tales collected here - Sir Edmund Orme, Owen Wingrave, and The Friends of the Friends - The Turn of the Screw is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's `infernal imagination', which torments but also entrals her?

The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, 'the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'?
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
336 pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Edition:
Oxford World’s Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0199536171
ISBN13:
9780199536177
kindle Asin:
B0030FOZ2Q

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Henry James
3.64/5 (4747 ratings)
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A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead.

Like the other tales collected here - Sir Edmund Orme, Owen Wingrave, and The Friends of the Friends - The Turn of the Screw is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's `infernal imagination', which torments but also entrals her?

The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, 'the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'?
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
336 pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Edition:
Oxford World’s Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0199536171
ISBN13:
9780199536177
kindle Asin:
B0030FOZ2Q

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