The Turn of the Screw
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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. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as h…
Details
- AuthorHenry James
- SourceProject Gutenberg #209
- Length42,030 words · 2h 48m of reading
- Chapters21
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
21 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01II
- 02III
- 03IV
- 04VI
- 05VII
- 06VIII
- 07IX
- 08XI
- 09XII
- 10XIII
- 11XIV
- 12XV
- 13XVI
- 14XVII
- 15XVIII
- 16XIX
- 17XX
- 18XXI
- 19XXII
- 20XXIII
- 21XXIV
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