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The Turn of the Screw

AuthorHenry James

NarratorPenelope Rawlins

Duration4h 51m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Classics, Horror

PublisherNaxos

VersionUnabridged

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Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of innocent children so corrupted by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent beauty. Their governess must struggle alone to confront and exorcise the demons which she believes possess their souls...

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