Author: (Retold by Pauline Francis)

Publisher: Evans

Format: Paperback

Pages: 48

Suitable: Intermediate Levels

The 'Fast Track Classics' series presents retold, shortened versions of classic novels that are suitable for children working at Key Stage Two. The stories are retold so as to lose none of the strength and character of the originals.

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, was published in 1898 and is his best-known horror story. It tells the tale of a governess and two young children, Miles and Flora, whoa re under her care. When the governess senses an intense evil within the house, she becomes obsessed that 'ghosts' are trying to harm the children.