Turn of the Screw by James, Henry (9780460872997)

Turn of the Screw

by James, Henry

Paperback - English

James's chilling ghost story of innocence and evil

One summer a young governess is sent to take charge of Miles and Flora, two beautiful, charming orphans living in a country house. But silence covers their past. Then the servants reappear who, before they died, had looked after the children. As winter closes in, the young governess struggles to keep her charges from the unnatural influences which they seem strangely to desire.

Terror makes this a ghost story, while uncertainty makes it horrifying. Are the apparitions the governess' invention? And if so, does the evil lie not in the children, but in love-sick young women- and in adult society itself?

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0460872990

EAN

9780460872997

Publisher

EVERYMAN PAPERBACK

Publication Date

15 Sep 1993

Pages

176

Weight (kg)

0.18

Dimensions (cm)

19.6 x 13.0 x 1.3

About Author

Henry James (1843-1916), American novelist and critic, was an innovator in technique and a distinctive prose stylist. More than any previous writer, James refined the technique of narrating a novel from the point of view of a character, thereby laying the foundations of modern stream-of-consciousness fiction. Among his many acclaimed novels are "The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, "and "The Wings of the Dove.".