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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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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

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"It was as if, while I took inwhat I did take inall the rest of the scene had been stricken with death. I can hear again, as I write, the intense hush in which the sounds of evening dropped. The rooks stopped cawing in the golden sky, and the friendly hour lost, for the minute, all its voice. But there was no other change in nature, unless indeed it were a change that I saw with a stranger sharpness." Oh, I was not scared (maybe just a little?) the last two days reading the The Turn of the

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

The Turn of the Screw is another classic I have been meaning to read for years. I didn't know much about it, but it has come up a lot lately in my Goodreads discussions and other books I have read. I was surprised to find out that it is a gothic horror story. Not really sure what I was expecting, but I guess I just had the stereotypical classic novel with people in old clothes with an antique setting on the cover. I know, I know - bad Matthew! Don't judge a book by its cover!This book reminded

Turn of the Screw is a pretty cool story. It's about a governess who either heroically attempts to protect her two charges from malevolent ghosts or goes dangerously bonkers. James leaves it ambiguous and I love that kind of story. Ambiguity works for me. Four stars for the plot. Kindof an abrupt ending though.On the other hand there's his writing style. I was at this party once and the topic was what would you do if the world was ending and the answer was generally that we would have all the

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

I seemed to float not into clearness, but into a darker obscure, and within a minute there had come to me out of my very pity the appalling alarm of his perhaps being innocent. It was for the instant confounding and bottomless, for if he were innocent, what then on earth was I? A young governess accepts a position in a beautiful estate in the English countryside, in Essex. The cosmopolitan uncle entrusts his niece and nephew into her hands and asks not to be disturbed under any circumstances.

It is the worst thing in the world to leave children with servants. Maria Edgeworth , Practical Education, 1798Of all the vulgar superstitions of the half educated, none dies harder than the absurd delusion that there is no such thing as ghosts. William T Stead, Real Ghost Stories, 1897The T of the S is a very mechanical matter, I honestly think an inferior, a merely pictorial, subject and rather a shameless pot-boiler. Henry James in a letter, 1898Come, let us enter what Wayne Booth called the