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Classic Novellas Week: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James #NovNov

What can I say about The Turn of the Screw that hasn’t already been said and written? I know there are countless papers, essays even PHDs exploring this slim book, which is the most inconclusive of ghost stories. In Henry James novella, an unnamed narrator is engaged as governess to two angelic children at Bly, a remote English…

Six Degrees of Separation: From What I Loved to A Portrait of A Lady

No 590 The Hunters by Claire Messud

In Claire Messud’s acclaimed novel The Woman Upstairs, her fascinating character of Nora was held up as a perfect example of an unreliable narrator, to the point where some readers even questioned her sanity. In The Hunters, a collection of two novellas, Messud seems to be dissecting the very idea of what a narrator is.…

No 738 & 737 The Turn of The Screw & This House is Haunted

What can I say about The Turn of the Screw that hasn’t already been said and written? I am sure there are countless papers, essays even PHDs on this, the most inconclusive of ghost stories. In Henry James novella, an unnamed narrator is engaged as governess to two angelic children at Bly, a remote English country house. What initially…