The Turn of the Screw
Author: Henry James
A chilling ghost story, wrought with tantalising ambiguity, Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw is edited with an introduction and notes by David Bromwich in Penguin Classics.,,In what Henry James called a ‘trap for the unwary’, The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a da….Read More
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