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01559aam a2200253Ii 4500 001 79E34144A49611EAA72F552797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200602010058 007 ta 008 200414r20201898enk e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1839402377 020 $a 9781839402371 035 $a (OCoLC)1150787065 040 $a ATXAS $b eng $e rda $c ATXAS $d LE@ $d SILO 100 1 $a James, Henry, $d 1843-1916, $e author. 245 14 $a The turn of the screw / $c Henry James. 264 1 $a London, England : $b Sirius Publishing, a division of Arcturus Publishing Limited, $c 2020. 300 $a 144 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Originally published: 1898. 520 $a The Turn of the Screw is a gothic ghost story, described by Oscar Wilde as 'a most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale'. An unnamed governess lives in an isolated country house with her two charges. When the governess begins to see ghostly apparitions roaming the grounds, she does everything she can to protect the children, but the situation soon spirals out of control. This uneasy and sinister novella has influenced a number of films including The Innocents (1961) and The Others (2001), and remains one of the most iconic horror stories of all time. 520 $a Presents the nineteenth-century short story in which a governess believes her two charges, ten-year-old Miles and eight-year-old Flora, are being haunted by the ghosts of former servants 941 $a 1 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20200602012951.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=79E34144A49611EAA72F552797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search