The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories

Curiously enough, his pain in the affair beforehand had consisted almost entirely in the sense that he must seem dishonourable, and sink in the opinion of the Garths: he had not occupied himself with the inconvenience and possible injury that his breach might occasion them, for this exercise of the imagination on other people’s needs is not common

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The somewhat misogynistic anonymous text entitled The Deceyte of Women (1557) is a collection of tales very much in the popular tradition about women lying and cheating and frequently taking lovers behind their husbands’ backs. But although it returns again and again to the theme of women as being morally corrupt, men who are deceived by them are t

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But Will wanted to talk with Dorothea alone, and was impatient of slow circumstances. However slight the terrestrial intercourse between Dante and Beatrice or Petrarch and Laura, time changes the proportion of things, and in later days it is preferable to have fewer sonnets and more conversation. Necessity excused stratagem, but stratagem was limit

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