James] is the most intelligent man of his generation.
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This gripping work of the unknown and moral decline is one of the most haunting pieces of fiction in the western canon.
As the ghosts eventually occupy the house, the governess develops a fearful obsession of the corruption of the children by the terrifying spirits.
Later, while at the lake with Flora, the governess sees a second apparition, that of the governess who proceeded her.
Grouse, the maid, she is informed that the description matches that of a former valet, who had died.
When she describes him to Mrs.
One evening, strolling outside, the governess is shocked to see a man in the tower of the house, and later in a window.
She is smitten by Flora, the little girl, but receives a letter that the boy, Miles, has been expelled from his school and would not be able to return.
To her surprise, she is requested not to reach the uncle of the children under any circumstance.
She had been employed by a dashing bachelor to take care of his niece and nephew in a remote country home.
The story quickly shifts to the perspective of a governess, who is the subject of the strangely ambiguous story.
The novella begins on Christmas Eve with the recitation of a letter. evil, rises this book beyond what can be described as a simple ghost story. the external, and good vs. unseen, the internal v.
The intriguing asymmetry of The Turn of the Screw , between the seen vs.
The depths and meaning of this story has been one of the most fascinating literary debates in all of literature.
Eliot The economy of horror is carried to its last degree.-Edith Wharton The most hopelessly evil story that we could have read in any literature-The Independent Henry James\' The Turn of the Screw (1898) is one of the most gripping psychological novellas ever written; a grim tale that could equally be a tale of madness or a tale of the supernatural.
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James] is the most intelligent man of his generation
