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 The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers - Henry James
 The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers - Henry James ... country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Meanwhile The Aspern Papers explores obsession of a more worldly kind, with its tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on some letters written by a great poet. Such is his drive, he is quite prepared to use trickery and deception to achieve his aims.Newest Review: ... this but the boy's charms stop her from pressing the matter further. It is around this time that the governess also begins to ... more ... see figures around the estate and also at this point that she learned that her predecessor and her illicit lover died under mysterious circumstances. To make matters worse she is convinced that both Flora and Miles are secretly aware of ghostly presences.
Because of its premise The Turn of the Screw has been classified as a simple little ghost story, which I suppose it is possible to view it as but in my opinion the story is much, much more than that.
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The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers - Henry James: Simply a Ghost Story? (1062 words)
by - written on 12/10/09 (Very useful, 54 readings)
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###~~~Now I know that this category says Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers but when I suggestsed the Turn of the Screw as a category in its own right dooyoo simply provided me with the link to this.~~~### The Turn of the Screw was one of the novels that I had to read for my English degree last year and probably the novel that I felt most at home deconstructing, picking to pieces and generally analysing in every way possible. I realised yesterday however when sorting through all of last year's books that I had yet to write a review on this little story and therefore thought it was high time I did. The Turn of the Screw was written by US born ... Read the complete review
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