The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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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 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 had gathered us for the occasion-an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her t to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him. It was this observation that drew from Douglas-t immediately, but later in the evening-a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention. Someone else told a story t particularly effective, which I saw he was t following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two nights later; but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out what was in his mind. I quite agree-in regard to Griffin's ghost, or whatever it was-that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, adds a particular touch. But it's t the first occurrence of its charming kind that I kw to have involved a child. If the child gives the effect ather turn of the screw, what do you say to two children-? We say, of course, somebody exclaimed, that they give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them. [...]

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Author(s)
Henry James
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Date of Publication
08/09/2013
Language
English
Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
1492367842
ISBN-13
9781492367840
Subject
General & Literary Fiction

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Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Content Note
black & white illustrations

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292 g
Width
152 mm
Height
229 mm
Spine
11 mm

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Trade paperback (US),Unsewn / adhesive bound

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