Turn of the Screw (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780460872997)

James's chilling ghost story of innocence and evil

One summer a young governess is sent to take charge of Miles and Flora, two beautiful, charming orphans living in a country house. But silence covers their past. Then the servants reappear who, before they died, had looked after the children. As winter closes in, the young governess struggles to keep her charges from the unnatural influences which they seem strangely to desire.

Terror makes this a ghost story, while uncertainty makes it horrifying. Are the apparitions the governess' invention? And if so, does the evil lie not in the children, but in love-sick young women- and in adult society itself?

The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes and chronology of James Life and times

Author: Henry James
ISBN-10: 0460872990
ISBN-13: 9780460872997
Publisher: Everyman Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1993
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.50d