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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Paperback)
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles
and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand
country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower
and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's
dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint
is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme',
`Owen Wingrave', and `The Friends of the Friends' - `The Turn of
the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are
the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a
ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader
may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from
beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's `infernal
imagination', which torments but also entrals her? `The Turn of the
Screw' is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily
equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious
exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with
echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, `the most
hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those
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