The turn of the screw ( editura: Penguin Books, autor: Henry James, ISBN 9780140623864 )

Penguin Popular Classics - The turn of the screw - complete and unabridged

'What is he? He's a horror' 'A horror?' 'He's - God help me if i know what he is!'

The new governess is in sole charge of two orphan children. Although they are both remarkably well-behaved, intelligent and affectionate, she becomes increasingly uneasy. Especially after she sees a stranger seemingly in search of something - or someone; a man whom she discovers is dead, live her predecessor. She then must fight a frightening battle for her pupils and against the forces of evil, a battle in which her victory will be even more terrible.
"The turn of the screw" is a subtle and unconventional ghost story that concetrates on the psychological rather than the actual. Is is open to widely different interpretations. Are the ghosts a real danger to the children or merely imagined by a lonely and susceptible woman? But what is certain is that the novel exerts a chilly and lasting power over the reader's imagination.