The Turn of the Screw is a 1898 horror novella by Henry James. It is both gothic fiction and a ghost story about a governess caring for two children. The governess becomes convinced that the grounds of the estate are haunted. The story has been adapted numerous times, including a 1950 Broadway play, the Benjamin Britten chamber opera, the 1961 film The Innocents, and a 2020 modern adaptation named The Turning.
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The Turn of the Screw is a 1898 horror novella by Henry James. It is both gothic fiction and a ghost story about a governess caring for two children. The governess becomes convinced that the grounds of the estate are haunted. The story has been adapted numerous times, including a 1950 Broadway play, the Benjamin Britten chamber opera, the 1961 film The Innocents, a 2020 modern adaptation named The Turning, and the 2020 Netflix miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor. Critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. Others have argued that the brilliance of the novellas results from its ability to create an intimate sense of confusion and suspense within the reader. The novellas have been studied by first-person narrative theorists interested in the power of fictional narratives to convince or manipulate readers. The Turn of The Screw is published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. It was published in serial format in Collier’s Weekly magazine in 1898 and appeared in The Two Magics in October 1898. In the century following its publication, The Turn Of The Screw became a cornerstone text of academics who subscribed to New Criticism. It has also been adapted into radio drama, opera, film, stage, and television, including the 1950 Broadway show, The Phantom of the Opera, and a 1960 film adaptation of The Innocent, starring Michael Caine as the governess.
The novel has been translated into several languages, including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Spanish. The first edition of The TurnOfTheScrew was published by The New York Edition in 1898. The second edition of the New York edition was released in 1899. The third and fourth editions of the book were published in 1899 and 1901. The fourth and fifth editions of The Turning were released in 1903 and 1904. The last edition of The Turn Of the Screw was published on November 14, 1903. The fifth and sixth editions were released on November 15, 1904 and January 10, 1905. The sixth and seventh editions were published on December 1, 1904, and January 14, 1906. The final edition of The Turning was released on December 14, 1905, and February 1, 1906, by The publishers, Macmillans. The seventh and eighth editions have been published on March 1, 1907, and April 1, 1908, by the publishers, The publishers of The Two Magics, and by the editors of The New York Editions, respectively. The eighth and ninth editions have not yet been published, but are expected to be published in the spring of 1908. The ninth and tenth editions will be published on May 1, 1909 and April 7, 1909.
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