The turn of the screw / by Henry James
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | James, Henry, 1843-1916 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T15:48:05Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T15:48:05Z |
| dc.date.created | 1898 |
| dc.date.issued | 1996-02-23 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2096 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2096 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 245 KB) |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.isreplacedby | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3154 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Occult fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Ghost stories -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Short stories |
| dc.title | The turn of the screw / by Henry James |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 254762 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<text> <front> <tPage> <dTitle type=main>The Turn of the Screw</dTitle> <byLine>by <dAuthor>Henry James</dAuthor> </byLine> </tPage> <div type='chapter'> <p>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 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 not 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& . . .
