After finishing it I re-read parts to look for clues, and even went to internet to check theories. I seldom do that! :O This is a ghost story that reads also as a detective story and a psychological thriller. Read it as a ghost story and it's about a wealthy and invisible man that has set, being by design or by fear, a cursed place with wicked and beautiful people with an agenda over two children, the apparition of the ghosts is formidable and scary through their silent threat. As a detective story it is about murders and hidden romances, for moments seems a way to plan an assassination; each utterance is a clue, each data has a background, the ghosts could be an alibi. And lastly it could be psychological, the narration is told at first by a group that accepts the existence of ghosts, and then by the governess hired by the wealthy gentleman under stressing conditions; she tells us her story but we cannot trust her, she hides her feelings, if she is convinced (and convinces others) about the ghosts existence is in grounds of mostly her word. There is a clear answer? there is not, but it is done in a way that it gives you curiosity to read it again.
I mention it reads as a manga for the language used, Japanese authors tend to write characters to be a tad more dramatic, they speak in a suspicious and indirect way, a tone similar to: '"he" is arriving', 'this is "his" choice', the awe felt through the revelations,the persecutions and in general dynamic narration. I love this book, I am not sure if I could recommend it though, I have a fascination with 19th century British literature, a fascination that few share. If you like that period as me then "The Turn of the Screw" is amazing. Without this story maybe the cinema genre of ghosts would not exist as we know it.
The AmazonClassics Edition is excellent. I wouldn't be surprised if it is the best available: it has useful X-Ray, modern typography and a limpid and comfortable to read formatting, as always the only absence is the original year of publication in the first page. Beyond that minor detail is a pleasure to read it in this edition, the text is pure as if had just been published, just a short author biography at the end. Highly recommended.
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