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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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Paranormal Activity 6 : The Turn of the Screw01:25 17th AUGUST 1895 : THE GOVERNESS BEDROOM04:55 23RD AUGUST 1895 : FROM THE WINDOW OF THE MAIN STAIRCASEAnyway, great story, but I must mention three STYLISTIC ISSUES which may perhaps GRATE on the less patient reader. 1) In The Turn of the Screw, as in a lot of HJs stuff, people like to finish each others sentences :But arent they all Sent home? Yes. P33Did she see anything in the boy That wasnt right? She never told me. P 36He couldnt prevent

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

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.

Redonkulous! Where's my SPOOKY?! I mean, I thought I'd get a few good jump scares out of a book with possessed children in it. You know what didn't happen, not even once, while I was listening to this book?THIS:I'm not sure why my teenage self thought The Turn of the Screw was worth 4 stars, but my older-than-teenage self certainly doesn't.On the surface, it seems like this should be a winner for me in the classic department - short, scary...short. But it was kinda crap. So the gist is that



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

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