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The Turn of the Screw

Author
Henry James
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
4 hours 28 minutes
ISBN
9781802560084
Published
10 August 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • ghosts
  • governess
  • apparitions
  • psychological suspense
  • English estate
  • paranoia
  • fear
  • innocence
  • evil
  • human psyche

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Description

"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James is a gripping and eerie tale of psychological suspense. A young governess is hired to care for two orphaned children, Miles and Flora, at a remote English estate. As she settles into her duties, she begins to see apparitions of the previous governess and a sinister servant, believing they seek to harm the children. As paranoia and fear escalate, James masterfully blurs the lines between reality and imagination, plunging readers into a haunting exploration of innocence, evil, and the human psyche.

Author

Henry James (1843–1916) is among the supreme novelists in English — an American who made Europe his stage and consciousness his subject. In The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove he traced Americans abroad through drawing rooms, secrets, and moral choice with unmatched psychological precision. James wrote sentences that think: long, exacting, and alive to every shade of feeling between people.

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