Bibliograph

The turn of the screw and other ghost stories, Henry James ; edited and with an introduction and notes by Susie Boyt

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The turn of the screw and other ghost stories, Henry James ; edited and with an introduction and notes by Susie Boyt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The turn of the screw and other ghost stories

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Henry James ; edited and with an introduction and notes by Susie Boyt

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

The romance of certain old clothes -- The last of the Valerii -- Sir Edmund Orme -- Owen Wingrave -- The friends of the friends -- The turn of the screw -- The third person -- The jolly corner

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