The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
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The Turn of the Screw

Author: Henry James

Unabridged: 3 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

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Synopsis

Christmas Eve. Guests round a fireside begin telling each other ghost stories. One of them relates a true incident involving the governess of his little nephew and niece. Strange events begin to take place, involving the housekeeper, a stranger who prowls round the grounds, a mysterious woman dressed in black and an unknown misdemeanor committed by the little nephew.

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James was published in 1893 and it remains one of the best-known and admired works of this great American writer. One of the factors that makes it so appealing is that the structure and ending are open to the reader's interpretation. Over the years, many critics, readers and scholars have provided their own theories about the ending and all of them may be valid from a certain viewpoint. However, the real horror in this book is the nameless, ambiguous sense of evil that pervades the story and brings out all that is deeply frightening to us.

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