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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

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First published: 1898
Pages: 124

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Chapter 00
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Chapter 01
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Chapter 02
10:19
Chapter 03
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Chapter 04
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Chapter 05
11:30
Chapter 06
23:04
Chapter 07
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Chapter 08
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Chapter 09
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
12:39
Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
11:49
Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
10:01
Chapter 20
13:48
Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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A young governess takes charge of two orphaned children at Bly, a remote English country house, on the strict condition that she never trouble their guardian uncle with any difficulty. Soon she begins to see figures on the grounds she cannot explain, and grows convinced that the ghosts of two dead servants are reaching for the children she is meant to protect. Henry James keeps the truth deliberately uncertain: the reader is never sure whether Bly is genuinely haunted or whether the governess is unraveling and endangering the children herself. That ambiguity has made the novella one of the most argued-over ghost stories ever written, a masterclass in dread built from suggestion rather than shock.

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Henry James

Henry James was an American-British writer and a master of the psychological novel. Works such as The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Ambassadors explore consciousness, society, and the clash between American and European life.