The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic

The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic
by Henry James

The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic
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Author: Henry James
Edition: Perfect Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 1580491618
Number of pages: 142
Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.

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Book Review: Turn of the Screw Keeps Turning
Summary: 4 Stars

This edition provides provacative notes to assist the reader who is not accustomed to the gothic romance genre. Various critical theories are proposed which stimulate attentive reading. My own reading would lean towards the notion that James is satirizing popular horror stories, while at the same time taking jabs at readers who absorb them. In any case, the novella provokes interesting discussion.

Summary of The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader more fully appreciate the rich complexity of James' language, images, and symbols. Before there was Alfred Hitchcock, there was Henry James, and before Psycho, there was The Turn of the Screw. Why is the young governess the only one who can see the ghosts? Are her young charges haunted or evil? Or is the governess herself mad? The book that claims to start out as a Christmas Eve ghost story quickly becomes a tale of psychological horror as the governess struggles-and ultimately fails-to protect the children from the "corruption" that only she can conceive of...but cannot name. Richly wrought in Late-Victorian prose, Henry James' most famous novel is both hauntingly beautiful and a shocking glimpse into the ultimate source of evil...the human mind.

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