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The Turn of the Screw (1898) sends a young governess to a remote country house called Bly, where she is given sole charge of two preternaturally charming children — and begins to see figures on the tower and across the lake whom only she can name. Framed as a manuscript read aloud on Christmas Eve, Henry James's most famous ghost story has been read for over a century as either a chilling tale of haunted innocence or a study in the unreliability of its narrator, and refuses, by design, to settle the question.
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