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

Author: Henry James

Narrator: AI Voice Arthur Lane

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2026


Synopsis

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A young governess takes her first position: two children, a remote country house in Essex, and an employer in London who insists on one condition above all others. He is never to be troubled about them. Whatever happens, she must handle it alone.

At first Bly seems idyllic. Flora is enchanting, Miles is expelled from school for a reason nobody will name, and the housekeeper is kind but evasive. Then the governess sees a man on the tower. Later, a woman in black across the lake. The servants who describe them are certain of the identification and equally certain that both people are dead.

She becomes convinced the children see them too, and are concealing it. What follows is either a rescue or a persecution, and the novella never tells you which.

The most argued-over ghost story in English literature: are the apparitions real, or is the narrator destroying two children to save them from her own imagination? A century of readers has failed to settle it.

About Henry James

American-born writer Henry James (1843–1916) authored 20 novels, 112 stories, 12 plays, and a number of literary criticisms.

James was born in New York City into a wealthy family. In his youth, James traveled back and forth between Europe and America. He studied with tutors in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of nineteen, he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but he was more interested in literature than law. James published his first short story, "A Tragedy of Errors," two years later and then devoted himself entirely to literature. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, he was a contributor to the Nation and Atlantic Monthly. His first novel, Watch and Ward, first appeared serially in the Atlantic.

After living in Paris, where he was a contributor to the New York Tribune, James moved to England. During his first years in Europe, James wrote novels that portrayed Americans living abroad. Between 1906 and 1910, he revised many of his tales and novels for the so-called New York edition of his complete works. Between 1913 and 1917, his three-volume autobiography-A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years (released posthumously)-was published. His last two novels, The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past, were left unfinished at his death.

Among James's masterpieces are Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, and The Wings of the Dove. In addition, James considered his 1903 work The Ambassadors his most "perfect" work of art.


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