Turn of the Screw

Level 6 Penguin Readers

Henry James

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Penguin Books Ltd
17 August 2021

ELT literature & fiction readers; Classic fiction (Children's&YA); Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's&YA); Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language; English as a Second Language

Series: Penguin Readers

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

The Turn of the Screw, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.

A young woman accepts her first job as a governess and goes to Bly, a large country house in England. There she teaches a young brother and sister. But the governess soon starts to see ghosts and tries to protect the children from them.

By: Henry James
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 100g
ISBN: 9780241493229
ISBN 10: 0241493226
Series: Penguin Readers
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 17 August 2021
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , College/higher education , English as a second language , Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.