The Turn of the Screw | Themes
In an old country house on Christmas Eve a group of people are telling ghost stories when one of them, an elderly man named Douglas, promises to read them the most horrifying story of ghostly apparitions he has ever known, a first-hand, first-person account which had been entrusted to him some forty years earlier by the woman who wrote it. He sends to London for the manuscript which arrives three days later. Before he starts reading, Douglas explains how the author of the memoir had obtained the post of governess to two orphaned children abandoned by their uncle/guardian at his country...
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