Turn Of The Screw And Other Stories

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A young inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles & Flora two small children abandoned by their uncles at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower & his face at the window. It is Peter Quint the masters dissolute valet & he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here
- Sir Edmund Orme Owen Wingrave & The Friends of the Friends
- The Turn of the Screw is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave or victims of the governesss infernal imagination which torments but also entrals her? The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous certainly the most eerily equivocal of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture filled with echoes of sexual & social unease? Or is it simply the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read? The texts are those of the New York Edition with a new Introduction & Notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.