The Two Magics collects two works by Henry James. The Turn of the Screw is a ghost story about a governess in an old house who believes two children are haunted. Covering End is a lighter social comedy about an old English country house. Worth listening for James's eerie ambiguity and range.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
Transcriber’s Notes: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible. Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are marked like this in the text. The original text appears when hovering the cursor over the marked text. A list of amendments is at the end of the text. THE TWO MAGICS THE TWO MAGICS THE TURN OF THE SCREW COVERING END BY HENRY JAMES AUTHOR OF “DAISY MILLER,” “THE EUROPEANS” ETC., ETC. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1898 All rights reserved Copyright, 1898, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. THE TURN OF THE SCREW THE TURN OF THE SCREW 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
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