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Original Title:	The Turn of the Screw
ISBN:	0140620613 (ISBN13: 9780140620610)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Flora (Turn of the Screw), Miles (Turn of the Screw), Mrs. Grose, Peter Quint, Miss Jessel
Setting:	London, England Essex, England

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

Paperback | Pages: 121 pages

Rating: 3.43 | 90535 Users | 6863 Reviews

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Title	:	The Turn of the Screw
Author	:	Henry James
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Popular Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 121 pages
Published	:	1994 by Penguin (first published October 1898)
Categories	:	Classics. Horror. Fiction. Gothic. Mystery. Literature. 19th Century

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A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate...An estate haunted by a beckoning evil.

Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls...

But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil.

For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.

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What is real , something you see but no one else does, things stare back at you then vanish into the nothingness of oblivion, images that cannot be solid ...ARE YOU GOING INSANE ? Such is the plot of the famous Henry James novella ...The Turn of the Screw, more a study of psychological turmoil than pure terror, yet it has it too. A young unnamed woman takes a job as governess to two small children in an old house called Bly, in rural England, set in the 1800's, she needs the money desperately ,

I often embrace the notion of writing being superior than plot to the extent of salvaging a lackluster body of the latter, very close to my heart. And it is stories like these that realign my reading meter in that direction.Henry James story has no flaws per se; instead, has a pollen bearing promise to turn into a full feather. A series of apparition that haunts the governess of a house, driving her to cast her net of suspicion across all the residents, primarily the children, makes for a

No, nothere are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I dont know what I dont seewhat I dont fear! Screen shot from the 1961 version of The Innocents based on the James short story.A governess is hired to look after the nephew and niece of a man who has inherited the responsibility for the children after the death of their parents. He is very explicit in his instructions to the governess that he is not to be bothered with

The plot of this classic Gothic book is well-known, so I will hit only the high points. A governess is hired by an English gentleman to take care of his orphaned nephew and niece. The only big condition for her work: she will never ever bother the guy with the problems with the kids. I could never figure out whether it was his eccentricity, or he just did not care about the kids much. The governess' first impression of the place was very favorable and the kids were adorable. Add to this good

Now you see me, ...now you dont.. What the... Meaning, understanding and certainty all become elusive chimera in this ambiguous game of hide-and-seek that Henry James plays with us. Have you ever been in one of those weird situations where you wondered if you were losing your mind, doubting whether what you were seeing was real? And... what it was that you were seeing? This is one of those "what the heck??" novels that you often find in the modernist genre. Not originally classed as a

In a strange way, paper-thin characterisation can be apt for a supernatural story.

A strange tale about a repressed young governess who, fearing her employers estate is haunted by malevolent spirits, sets out to protect her pair of pupils from harm at any cost. Told from the governesss increasingly erratic perspective, the plot revolves around her loss of contact with reality, charting her slow descent into paranoia and despair. The pacings jerky and the characterizations paper thin, but the works full of perplexing mysteries and heavy-handed queer subtext thats interesting