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The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James

It was a pity that I should have had to quaver out again the reasons for my not having, in my delusion, so much as questioned that the little girl saw our visitant even as I actually saw Mrs. Grose herself, and that she wanted, by just so much as she did thus see, to make me suppose she didn’t, and at the same time, without showing anything, arrive at a guess as to whether I myself did!

A bit too long-winded for me.

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Dan

That's Henry James. And he was less long-winded in this story than most of his works because he was writing more for a popular audience. English literature majors love those long, challenging sentence…

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Richard Alex Jenkins

I don't think it's an acquired taste, but modern taste. Things have move on and as a copywriter, people need fast and accurate information.

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Dan

In my undergraduate studies, professors loved to assign a lot of Henry James. He is still highly regarded by academics today as one of the greatest writers to have written in our language. A lot of ar…

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