James's chilling ghost story of innocence and evil
One summer a young governess is sent to take charge of Miles and Flora,
two beautiful, charming orphans living in a country house. But silence
covers their past. Then the servants reappear who, before they died, had
looked after the children. As winter closes in, the young governess
struggles to keep her charges from the unnatural influences which they
seem strangely to desire.
Terror makes this a ghost story, while uncertainty makes it horrifying.
Are the apparitions the governess' invention? And if so, does the evil
lie not in the children, but in love-sick young women- and in adult
society itself?
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