The Turn of the Screw = 碧廬冤孽
點閱:4作者:Henry James[原作];甦活中英文編輯所[編輯]
出版年:2011
出版社:Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation 甦活全球網路
出版地:Salt Lake City, UT. 臺北市
格式:EPUB 流式
分類:英文書  
The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid?