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Title: The Turn of the Screw
Author: Henry James, Dove Audio - producer
Narrator: Stephanie Beacham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-07-17
Publisher: Raffin
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:
A neurotic governess at a country house claims that the two orphaned children in her care are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose. No one else can see the ghosts, and the children themselves are silent. The psychological ambiguities in this tale have made it one of the world's most famous intellectual ghost stories.

Members Reviews:
Boring nonsense
This was hard to get through. The language was archaic and difficult to follow. The plot was ridiculous. Iâve enjoyed other books by James and so wanted to give this one a chance. It just never delivered. It had a silly ambiguous ending so it really was not worth my while to finish it. A huge disappointment.

Great story....old fashioned writing.
I missed reading this story in my college English Lit. class.
Great story....very old fashioned writing. The W. Wyler film "The Heiress" is the masterpiece.

Ghosts or a troubled mind?
The Turn of the Screw is a well-known Victorian ghost story written by Henry James, whose predominant characteristic is ambiguity. Some modern readers will be disappointed, because the thrilling scenes are very subtly recorded and the ghosts seem to be pretty harmless. Taking in consideration that we get only the governess's account of the story - within the manuscript - we cannot always take her seriously.
This novella can be interpreted in two different ways:
A) the ghosts truly exist and communicate with the two children, while the governess tries to protect them.
B) only the governess sees the ghosts - these supernatural beings are hallucinations caused by the woman's unsatisfied love/sexual life. I find this psychoanalytic approach more appealing, because there are some fading allusions that she was in love with the master (the uncle of the children). For example, on the first evening she saw Quint seated up on the tower, she was daydreaming of encountering someone. Also, she sees Miss Jessel - the late governess - on the other side of the lake. (S. Freud considers water a symbol of the female gender.) the present governess might fantasise of her own desires through the two ghosts: Mrs Grose tells her that Quint and Miss Jessel had an affair and that he (probably) abused Miles. The governess's obsessions of seeing ghosts and of suspecting her pupils of lying or concealing the secret - that they are also visited often by the ghosts - will harm the children in different ways.
Personally, I would like to read this book from Mrs Grose's or sombody else's perspective, in order to get a clearer view of what really happened.

The Turn of the Screw - The Brilliance of Henry James
In this gripping short story, James has presented the extreme belief of good of and evil of his time..
A young governess, doomed by her degree of education to serve in the homes of others teaching and taking care of their children, finds herself in a setting where she is mistress,. She is in a position to express her own goodness and love by protecting the children from evil, but she also needs recognition for this by her employer. .
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She has no wise adults to protect her from herself, and becomes obsessed with proving that predecessor were malevolent
This will give her greater ownership of the children and their love..