The Turn of the Screw • In the Cage
by Henry James
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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark. In his rarely anthologized novella In the show more Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain's lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James. show lessTags
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People always talk about this being one of the greatest ghost stories of all time. I don't get it.
Second reading May 2026. First was during the heyday of the tv series "Lost". Turn of the Screw is an understatement.
James writing style is described as dense convoluted prose, complex psychological analysis, and long subordinate clause sentences.
Book is really dense reading and I'm just not enjoying the Victorian era writing style. Very emotional based characters and over analytical thought processes. Language not understandable at times though some content is meant to be ambivalent. Definitely get a readers guide, which I did not do. Extensive vocabulary used, but that wasn't a big deal.
One and done w H James
James writing style is described as dense convoluted prose, complex psychological analysis, and long subordinate clause sentences.
Book is really dense reading and I'm just not enjoying the Victorian era writing style. Very emotional based characters and over analytical thought processes. Language not understandable at times though some content is meant to be ambivalent. Definitely get a readers guide, which I did not do. Extensive vocabulary used, but that wasn't a big deal.
One and done w H James
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