The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

Henry James’s gothic novella traps a young governess, two children, and a country house inside one of literature’s most unnerving studies in ambiguity, repression, and dread.

At a glance

  • The Turn of the Screw is one of the essential works of gothic fiction: a compact…
  • Henry James builds the story through suggestion, withheld certainty, and the slow…
  • Themes James turns the country-house ghost story into a study of innocence, authority…
  • The novella’s power lies in its instability: every scene can be read as supernatural…

James turns the country-house ghost story into a study of innocence, authority, class, secrecy, and interpretation.

The Turn of the Screw

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