The Turn of the Screw

Henry James’s ghost story of a young governess in charge of two orphaned children at Bly, a lonely English country house, who comes to believe that the ghosts of two former servants are haunting them.

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Famous quotes

• If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children⁠—?

  PrologueIn context

  • Children
  • Fear

• We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

  Chapter XXIVIn context

  • Life & Death

Contents

1. Prologue
2. Chapter I
3. Chapter II
4. Chapter III
5. Chapter IV
6. Chapter V
7. Chapter VI
8. Chapter VII
9. Chapter VIII
10. Chapter IX
11. Chapter X
12. Chapter XI
13. Chapter XII
14. Chapter XIII
15. Chapter XIV
16. Chapter XV
17. Chapter XVI
18. Chapter XVII
19. Chapter XVIII
20. Chapter XIX
21. Chapter XX
22. Chapter XXI
23. Chapter XXII
24. Chapter XXIII
25. Chapter XXIV