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The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

Paper book: €23.99

Digital: €8.99

Original publication
1898
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
326
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Horror, Psychology
Moods
Get the chills, Understand myself
Translated from
English

Book summary

A young governess goes to look after two children, Miles and Flora, in an isolated manor house in the English countryside. The children are charming, almost too charming. Soon she glimpses, on a tower and then near a pond, two figures who should not be there.

Real ghosts, or the governess's madness? Henry James leaves the question open to the very last line, and it is this doubt that makes the tale one of the most famous ghost stories.

With the translation always in front of you, you can read this classic in the language you are learning.

The plot

A governess sees a stranger on the tower. A young woman of twenty becomes a governess. A wealthy bachelor places his nephew and niece in her care. He sets one condition: she must never trouble him.

The world of the book

Ghost stories on a Christmas evening. In an old English house, friends tell each other ghost stories. One of them promises the most terrible of all.

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