The Turn of the Screw - in links

On 21 August, the Guardian and Glyndebourne are again joining forces, this time to stream live on our site The Turn of the Screw. Here's our introductory guide to Britten's chilling operaHenry James's original novella was published in 1898 as a 12-part serialised novel. The original germ of the idea came from the Archbishop of Canterbury, no less, who told James of a ghost story in which two small children were haunted by two servants "with horrible intentions". Three years later, James turned t...

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