The Turn of the Screw (Legend Classics) - by Henry James (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Written with such exquisite ambiguity, this book will call into question everything you know - but, in <cite>The Turn of the Screw</cite>, not knowing the truth might be a blessing.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Part of the <i>Legend Classics </i>series</b><p><b>Adapted into the Netflix series <i>The Haunting of Bly Manor</i></b><br /><b>Adapted into the major motion picture <i>The Turning</i> starring Finn Wolfhard<br />Adapted into an opera in London's West End</b></p><p><i>No, no--there are depths, depths!<br />The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. <br />I don't know what I don't see--what I don't fear!</i><p>In this classic gothic horror ghost story, we follow a young governess and her deep psychological anguish. It begins when she agrees to care for two orphans living in a remote estate, and her sudden conviction that the grounds are haunted.</p><p>Henry James used the horror genre to imbue the everyday with the uncanny and the unknown. A true measure of his success can be found in the debates still raging today: on topics of the characters' sanity, the concept of truth in fiction, and the extent to which James manipulates the reader.</p><p>Written with such exquisite ambiguity, this book will call into question everything you know - but, in <cite>The Turn of the Screw</cite>, not knowing the truth might be a blessing.</p><p>The <i>Legend Classics</i> series: <br />Around the World in Eighty Days<br />The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<br />The Importance of Being Earnest<br />Alice's Adventures in Wonderland<br />The Metamorphosis<br />The Railway Children<br />The Hound of the Baskervilles<br />Frankenstein<br />Wuthering Heights<br />Three Men in a Boat<br />The Time Machine<br />Little Women<br />Anne of Green Gables<br />The Jungle Book<br />The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories<br />Dracula<br />A Study in Scarlet<br />Leaves of Grass<br />The Secret Garden<br />The War of the Worlds<br />A Christmas Carol<br />Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<br />Heart of Darkness<br />The Scarlet Letter<br />This Side of Paradise<br />Oliver Twist<br />The Picture of Dorian Gray<br />Treasure Island<br />The Turn of the Screw<br />The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<br />Emma<br />The Trial<br />A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe<br />Grimm Fairy Tales<br />The Awakening<br />Mrs Dalloway<br />Gulliver's Travels<br />The Castle of Otranto<br />Silas Marner<br />Hard Times</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Henry James </b>is best known for writing <i>The Portrait of a Lady</i>, <i>The Ambassadors</i>, and <i>The Wings of the Dove</i>. His later works were increasingly experimental, and were often described as literature's equivalent to an impressionist painting. His novella <i>The Turn of the Screw </i>is one of the most analyzed ghost stories in the English language. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.
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