"The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories by Henry James

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"The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories by Henry James

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A young governess is charged with the care of two small children abandoned by their uncles at his 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. But Peter Quint is dead. Is what appears to the governess a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees?

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"The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories by Henry James

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncles 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 enthrals 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'? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes.
SKU CIN0192834045A
ISBN 13 9780192834041
ISBN 10 0192834045
Title "The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Author Henry James
Condition well read
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1998-06-01
Number of pages 322
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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