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Books like The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is about ambiguity and unreliable perception, childhood and innocence, repression and the uncanny. If that's what drew you in, here are 4 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Portrait of a Lady
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Henry James · Literary fiction
Isabel Archer is an intelligent, independent young American woman who arrives in Europe convinced that she wants nothing more than to be free — free from convention, from the pressure to marry, from the enclosures that other women seem to accept without complaint.
Read the summary → - Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
Read the summary → - In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
Read the summary → - Mexican Gothic
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Horror
Mexican Gothic is set in 1950s Mexico, where Noemí Taboada — fashionable, sharp, and underestimated — travels to a remote manor in the Mexican countryside after receiving a disturbing letter from her newly-married cousin Catalina.
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