An edition of The Turn of the Screw
(1898)
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
by Henry James
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The story unfolds with the arrival of a new governess at a remote country estate. She has been hired by the uncle of two young orphans to take complete charge of the children's lives and upbringing. Her first peaceful weeks are disturbed by the apparition of the ghosts of two evil servants who once served in the house.
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The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
October 30, 1998, Penguin Books
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The turn of the screw: & The lesson of the master
1996, Prometheus Books
in English
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
1992, Oxford University Press
in English
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The Turn of the Screw
1991, Dover Publications, The Modern Library
in English
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The turn of the screw: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism
1989, WW Norton
in English
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The Turn of the Screw
February 1983, Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
Paperback
in English
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
1969, Penguin, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
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The turn of the screw.: An authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism.
1966, W. W. Norton
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The turn of the screw.
The pupil.
The third person.
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The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
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