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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 |
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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Ratings: 3.43 From 90535 Users | 6863 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Turn of the Screw
...my imagination had, in a flash, turned real. He did stand there!I could not decide whether I was more intrigued by the Gothic thriller or the intricate jalebi of the prose, a truly - truly - labyrinthine prose, which James employs with great effect for the purpose of dissimulation. (Folks would later dub it 'unreliable narration.') You can trust James to phrase the most simplest of ideas and situations in the most imaginative of ways without making a fool of you; but if you still insist onWay too nice Kenny! Glad youve also enjoyed this.
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
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.
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
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
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