The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. The novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote country house, becomes convinced that they are haunted. The Turn of the Screw is considered a work of both Gothic and horror fiction.
In the century following its publication, critical analysis of the novella underwent several major transformations. Initial reviews regarded it only as a frightening ghost story, but, in the 1930s, some critics suggested that the supernatural elements were figments of the governess' imagination. In the early 1970s, the influence of structuralism resulted in an acknowledgement that the text's ambiguity was its key feature. Later approaches incorporated Marxist and feminist thinking.
The novella has been adapted several times, including a Broadway play (1950), a chamber opera (1954), two films (in 1961 and 2020), and a miniseries (2020).
On Christmas Eve, an unnamed narrator and some of his friends are gathered around a fire. One of them, Douglas, reads a manuscript written by his sister's late governess. The manuscript tells the story of her being hired by a man who has become responsible for his young niece and nephew following the deaths of their parents. He lives mainly in London and has a country house in (fictional) Bly, Essex...
CHAPTERS:
Opening Credits 0:00:00
Introduction 0:00:38
Chapter 1 0:17:04
Chapter 2 0:26:54
Chapter 3 0:35:40
Chapter 4 0:48:11
Chapter 5 1:00:14
Chapter 6 1:08:39
Chapter 7 1:24:56
Chapter 8 1:34:19
Chapter 9 1:46:11
Chapter 10 1:57:52
Chapter 11 2:07:50
Chapter 12 2:16:23
Chapter 13 2:23:19
Chapter 14 2:35:01
Chapter 15 2:43:18
Chapter 16 2:49:50
Chapter 17 2:56:03
Chapter 18 3:05:44
Chapter 19 3:13:00
Chapter 20 3:20:50
Chapter 21 3:31:41
Chapter 22 3:44:29
Chapter 23 3:53:00
Chapter 24 4:01:21
Ending Credits 4:12:57
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Narrator: Logan Keen
Author: Henry James
Date of original publication: 1898
Genre: Gothic horror novella
Language : English
Version : unabridged, full/complete
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