Ghost Stories In The Turn Of The Screw

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Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw is a compact, vivid, soul-stirring, suspense and exciting ghost story. Thousands of people have thousands interpretations about it. After this novel coming out, readers try to understand the complexity of the story from various aspects. The story of The Turn of the Screw is a frame story which begin in a night on Christmas Eve. A group of people sit round the fire to share some ghost stories. The story of children encountering ghost catches attention of Douglas, so he tells a more horrible and mysterious ghost story. A young lady apply as a governess for the first time. Her two students are brother and sister who are extrmely cute and smart. She likes them very much. Her work place is a country house which

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