The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

A young governess arrives at Bly to care for two orphaned children – but soon she begins to see strange figures on the grounds of the remote country house.

Are they the ghosts of the former governess Miss Jessel and the servant Peter Quint? Or does the horror arise from her own mind?

Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw is one of the most famous ghost stories in world literature and a masterpiece of literary ambiguity. Is this a tale of ghosts, madness, corruption – or all three?

Few works of horror have sustained such tension between the seen and the imagined, the supernatural and the psychological.

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This is the English-language paperback edition of the classic book.
Henry James. The Turn of the Screw. First published in serial form in Collier’s Weekly, January 27 – April 16, 1898. First published in book form in The Two Magics, Macmillan, New York, and William Heinemann, London, 1898. The text of this edition follows the original English text.

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The Haunting Gothic Masterpiece of Secrets and Fear. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,0 cm / 16,0 cm / 0,7 cm ( B/H/T )
LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag
Juni 2026 – 88 Seiten

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Famous Quotes

“If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?”

Opening frame narrative, p. 5 of the LIWI edition.

“It was the first time, in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom, all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature.”

Chapter III, pp. 17–18.

“The change was actually like the spring of a beast.”

Chapter III, p. 18.

“It was as if, while I took in—what I did take in—all the rest of the scene had been stricken with death.”

Chapter III, p. 19.

“I was a screen—I was to stand before them. The more I saw, the less they would.”

Chapter VI, p. 31.

“No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!”

Chapter VII, pp. 33–34.