Paranormal Activity 6 : The Turn of the Screw 
 01:25 17th AUGUST 1895 : THE GOVERNESS' BEDROOM 
 04:55 23RD AUGUST 1895 : FROM THE WINDOW OF THE MAIN STAIRCASE 
 Anyway, great story, but I must mention three STYLISTIC ISSUES which may perhaps GRATE on the less patient reader. 
 1)	In The Turn of the Screw, as in a lot of HJ's stuff, people like to finish each other's sentences : 
 "But aren't they all - " 
 "Sent home? Yes." P33 
 "Did she see anything in the boy -" 
 "That wasn't right? She never told me." P 36 
 "He couldn't prevent -" 
 "Your learning the truth? I dare say!" p63 
 "Surely you don't accuse him-" 
 "Of carrying on an intercourse that he conceals from me?" - p64 
 "That was the great reason - " 
 "Why those fiends took him in so long?" p77 
 "You leave him -" 
 "So long with Quint? Yes." P97 
 2)	And people very often answer questions with questions and avoid giving a straight answer : 
 "Do you fear for them? 
 "Don't you?" - p47 
 "And you forgave him that?" 
 "Wouldn't you?" p 63 
 "Well, do you like it?" 
 "Do you?" - p114 
 "Is that what you did at school?" 
 "At school?" - p 118 
 3)	And being Henry James means that you sandbag your readers with sentences of remarkable opacity when they least expect it : 
 He never wrote to them - that may have been selfish, but it was part of the flattery of his trust of myself; for the way in which a man pays his highest tribute to a woman is apt to be but by the more festal celebration of one of the sacred laws of his comfort. 
 P82 
 (I was okay until "be but by") 
 It sufficiently stuck out, that by tacit little tricks in which even more than myself he carried out the care for my dignity, I had had to appeal to him to let me off straining to meet him on the ground of his true capacity. 
 P 111 
 I mean, what - uh - huh - 
 Anyhow, whatever, this is a P Bryant Must Read. 
 footnote : 
 for Screw fans, here's my follow-up review of all the lovely theories about it: 
 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...