The Turn of the Screw, which is only 272 pages, was the basis for the Netflix series, The Haunting of Bly Manor. Amazon described it as a tale of “a nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. But is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence or something else entirely?”
Oscar-winning actress Dame Emma Thompson recorded the audiobook for The Turn of the Screw for Audible. She spoke to Entertainment Weekly about her love of the story, revealing that she did her first dissertation at university on Henry James. “I consider Henry James the most extraordinary writer,” she said. “I know his work very well, and I love it. The Turn of the Screw is extraordinary—the idea of these children knowing, in a ghastly way, stuff they shouldn’t know is so terribly good.”
She continued, “The Victorians had this monomaniacal view of childhood as this period of complete innocence, which they then would utterly traumatize by telling terrible stories about death, doom, and disaster, Dickens being one of the great proponents of that. Child psychology hadn’t been invented; it was not understood how complex children were. But James wrote very well about the insight that children have—probably because of his own difficult childhood.”
James also wrote The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and The Ambassadors. To this day, he is considered one of the greatest authors of all time and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. He died in 1916 at the age of 72.
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