Henry. James 
Turn Of The Screw 

The Turn Of The Screw is one of the most important novellas of Henry James, and also a work that embodies his superb artistic charm of novellas. On Christmas Eve, some friends sat around the fire and they felt so bored that they decided to tell ghost stories they had heard. One of them told a story about a governess in the suburbs who was haunted by a ghost. Everything seems ordinary, but things become vivid and delicate in Henry James»s writing: only the governess can see ghosts. When she suspected that the former schoolmistress was controlling the two children on the farm for some evil purpose, everyone thought she was mad, but the children kept it a secret. Why did the little girl never acknowledge the figure that stood so clearly on the shore of the lake? Was the little girl deluded, or was the schoolmistress delusional? The author is in no hurry to reveal the answer, but his back is getting cold and the screws are tightening…