FratFiles

• Save Paper

ClassicNote on Turn of the Screw

Prologue Summary

Friends gathered around a fire in a country house outside London on Christmas Eve entertain themselves by telling ghost stories. When a man named Griffin tells of a little boy who experiences a ghostly visitation, his friend Douglas notes, a few nights later, that the age of the child "gives the effect another turn of the screw" and proposes a ghost story unsurpassed for "dreadfulness" about two children. The manuscript of this true story has been kept in a locked drawer for twenty years, since the death of its writer. The story, which the writer and now Douglas have kept secret for forty years, Douglas's younger sister's governess, with whom he became friends when he was a university student at home on holiday.
The narrator quickly guesses that the reason the governess kept the story secret was that she was in love, and Douglas refuses to say more until the governess's manuscript arrives by post in three days. All the......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 24560
Approximate Pages: 99 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Henry James &Quot;The Turn Of The Screw&Quot;
   

   henry james "the turn of the screw" ClassicNote on Turn of the Screw Prologue Summary Friends gathered around a fire in a country house outside London on Christmas Eve entertain

2. Henry James
   

   Henry James 2. Henry James- his life and his work Henry James was a gifted writer, who had talents in literature, psychology and philosophy. He wrote 20 novels, 112 stories, 12

3. Losing Innocence: A Comparative Analysis Of Henry James's The...
   

   Losing Innocence: A Comparative Analysis of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and Jack Clayton's film adaptation, The Innocents Henry James's novella, The Turn of the Screw, has

4. The Delusional World Of A Young Governess
   

   A Young Governess The Delusional World of a Young Governess In, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw the only conclusion that I can make regarding the sanity of the governess is

5. Daisy Miller
   

   Daisy Miller "Henry James was born at two Washington Place in New York City on April 15,1843. He was the second son to Henry James, Sr., an independently wealthy intellectual, and