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The turn of the screw

Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look after Miles, aged ten, and Flora, eight. At first, everything appears normal but then events gradually begin to weave a spell of psychological terror. Known for his probing psychological novels dealing with the upper classes, James in this story tried his hand at the occult and created a masterpiece of the supernatural that has frightened and delighted readers for nearly a century.

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  • "Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look after Miles, aged ten, and Flora, eight. At first, everything appears normal but then events gradually begin to weave a spell of psychological terror. Known for his probing psychological novels dealing with the upper classes, James in this story tried his hand at the occult and created a masterpiece of the supernatural that has frightened and delighted readers for nearly a century."@en
  • "One of literature's most gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of 2 innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror creates what few stories in literature have been able to do? a complete feeling of dread and uncertainty."@en
  • "To read a story by Henry James is to enter a world-- a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. In this classic novella, a young governess who goes to an isolated English estate to take charge of two precocious children gradually realizes that her young charges are under the evil influence of the ghosts of the family's ex-steward and former governess."@en
  • "The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James. A masterpiece in ambivalence and the uncanny, The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young woman who is hired as governess to two seemingly innocent children in an isolated country house. As the tale progresses she begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor. Or does she? The story is so ambivalent and eerie, such a psychological thriller, that few can agree on exactly what takes place. James masters "the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy" in this chilling Victorian classic."

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  • "Children's stories"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Literatura grozy amerykańska"@pl
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945"
  • "Spannung"
  • "Ghost stories"@en
  • "Ghost stories"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "˜Theœ turn of the screw"
  • "ねじの回転"
  • "The turn of the screw"@en
  • "The turn of the screw"
  • "Otra vuelta de tuerca"@es
  • "Vuelta de tuerca"@es
  • "Das Durchdrehen der Schraube eine Geistergeschichte"
  • "A csavar fordul egyet"@hu
  • "Skruen strammes"@da
  • "Der letzte Dreh der Schraube"
  • "W kleszczach lęku"
  • "W kleszczach lęku"@pl
  • "Neji no kaiten"@ja
  • "Neji no kaiten"
  • "Turn of the Screw"@en

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