by Henry James · Penguin Book UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140623864
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«The Turn of the Screw» is the gothic novel by Henry James, published by Penguin Book UK in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Hired as a governess, a young woman arrives at a rural mansion to look after two orphaned siblings. The calm is broken when she perceives strange presences and suspects the children are hiding something. Between the supernatural and suggestion, the story maintains psychological suspense and the doubt of whether the ghosts are real or imagined.
Novel originally published in 1898. The cover belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers of English classics, interested in psychological horror and ambiguous ghost stories.
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
