# The Turn of the Screw

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- Book: [The Turn of the Screw](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/the-turn-of-the-screw) ([The Turn of the Screw.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/the-turn-of-the-screw.md))
- Authors: [Henry James](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4144-135-1
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2011-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me, it stopped short' The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care.