The screw is tightened

Author: Henry James
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: "The Easy Read Classics Series" helps Chinese middle school students improve their literary appreciation, cultivate moral character, and enhance their English reading skills. It can be said to be the "golden key" to opening the door to reading English literary masterpieces. The heroine of the novel is employed by a wealthy guardian as the family teacher for the two children under her care. To save the children's souls, the female teacher engages in a struggle with the ghost of the former female teacher and the ghost of the servant. While the children appear innocent on the surface, they are influenced by the ghosts and become unusually cunning. The Turn of the Screw is indeed a ghost story, but it is not clichéd. Since James also tried his hand at drama, he had a deep study of everyday dialogue, and The Turn of the Screw includes many dialogues, most of the novel's tension arising from them. Like many ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw also takes place in an era before cars were invented. All the stories begin in a large house.