9781434000941
The Turn of the Screw
โ Scribed by Henry James; David Bromwich
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd;ProQuest LLC : Penguin
- Year
- 2010;2011
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me, it stopped short'
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The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a 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.
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9781434000941
9781434000941
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