The Turn of the Screw » (Unabridged)

Henry James was a master at tracing the social boundaries of the Gilded Age -- between Old and New World, Europe and America, desire and convention, men and women. He brought an invaluably clear-eyed, and critical, sensibility to America's evolving cultural mores.

More than just a simple tale of the supernatural, James poses questions about childhood innocence, corruption and hysteria.

The story focuses on a naïve governess who takes charge of two children at the lonely house of Bly. When she begins to see ghosts, she believes that the children do too, with devastating consequences.