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The Turn of the Screw: A Classic Psychological Ghost Story
Paperback
Classic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781604595147
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Oct 29 2008
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Turn of the Screw is Henry James's masterful novella of psychological ambiguity and supernatural suggestion.
Set in an isolated English country estate, the story follows a young governess charged with caring for two orphaned children. As she becomes increasingly convinced that malign presences haunt the household, the narrative unfolds through her perspective-raising enduring questions about perception, innocence, repression, and the reliability of testimony. James carefully withholds certainty, allowing readers to confront the tension between supernatural explanation and psychological disturbance.
Compact yet layered, the novella remains a central text in the study of Gothic fiction and modern psychological narrative. Its influence extends across literature, theater, film, and literary criticism, where it is frequently examined for its narrative structure and interpretive openness. The Turn of the Screw continues to provoke debate, making it a foundational work for courses in Victorian literature, modern fiction, and narrative theory.
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