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041			_aeng
080			_a813.4
100			_aJames, Henry [1843-1916.]
245		4	_aThe turn of the screw and other stories
260			_aOxford _bOxford University Press _c1992
300			_alv, 266 pages ; 20 cm
490			_aOxford world's classics
520			_a0199536171
520			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aA young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here: `Sir Edmund Orme', `Owen Wingrave', and `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 governess's `infernal imagination', which torments but also enthrals her?
520			_a2019
650			_aGhost stories--American
650			_aChildren--Fiction
650			_aEngland--Social life and customs--Fiction
700			_aLustig, T.J. (Ed)
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