Welcome to the beta version of Shelfari’s new Book Detail pages!
These pages are editable by the community, so please contribute! Click here to learn more about this feature. We’d love to hear your feedback.
Description
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
Cast of Characters/Important People
- The Governess: The overseer of the two children, Miles and Flora. The only person who sees the two ghosts, Miss Jessel and Peter Quint.
- Flora: An eight year old girl. Blonde hair blue eyes, symbol of innocence.
- Miles: Older of the orphaned children.
- Mrs Grose: The housekeeper at Bly.
First Sentence
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.
Table of Contents
Popular Tags
See all 50 tags
Amazon Customers Who Bought This Book Also Bought
If you have any suggestions for how we can improve this page or if there are sections that you would like us to add, please let us know.
