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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Fiction, Classics

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Fiction, Classics

James, Henry

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ISBN10: 1592243118
ISBN13: 9781592243112
Publisher: Wildside Pr
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Critics have argued long and hard over the central problem of the story: if the motifs of the traditional ghost story, in the hands of a master, are used to probe the deepest depths of the human psyche, do the resultant terrors spring from the objective return of the spirits of the dead, or from the fears, memories and guilt the expectation of such apparitions may evoke? Are there any ghosts in this story at all? James himself might have been puzzled by that question. His own remarks make it clear that what he had in mind was a sinister romance, inspired by a ghostly story he had heard from an Archbishop of Canterbury. He wrote of the portentous evil of the demon-spirits in the story, but it was his genius to make them so profoundly mysterious that THE TURN OF THE SCREW will survive any number of interpretations and go on to chill and delight readers for centuries to come.

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