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The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic [Perfect Paperback]

Henry James (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1, 2006

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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Perfect Paperback: 142 pages
Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc. (October 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1580491618
ISBN-13: 978-1580491617
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
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Henry James's tale is the last of the gothic Victorian novellas, with its richly developed sense of propriety - a semblance of manners and understatement concealing primitive subliminal impulse. Its dense, symbolic language penetrates deeply into the psyche. There is evil here. But its emanation is ambiguous and amorphous. The characters exist in a pervasive atmosphere of dread. The exact source of that dread has intrigued readers since it was written.

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