With our November book group taking place just a few days after Halloween, we'll be discussing the classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Published in 1898, it quickly became James' most popular work of short fiction.

The gothic horror novella tells of a young governess who arrives at a remote country estate to care for two children, only to become convinced that supernatural forces haunt the grounds. Even its author found it terrifying: “I had to correct the proofs of my ghost story last night,” he told poet Edmund Gosse, “and when I had finished them I was so frightened that I was afraid to go upstairs to bed!”

The group previously read Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady way back at the beginning of 2014.

Project Gutenberg link for those e-reading:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209

Plus, because it's in the public domain, there are a number of audiobooks on YouTube - perhaps the perfect way to experience a ghost story...

Do you keep meaning to read more of the great classics? At Wellington Classic Literature Club, we read works that have stood the test of time, whether they were written in 1780, 1880 or even 1980. We meet on the first Tuesday of the month.

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We meet in the ‘Games Room’, The Library bar's private area overlooking Courtenay Place. After you enter the bar, head to your right (up the step) and through a smaller space with booths to the large carpeted space beyond (behind the big wooden sliding door).

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Wellington Classic Literature Club has been running for more than a decade - since the start of 2013 - and we have a great bunch of regulars as well as readers who join us for particular books or simply when it suits.