The Turn Of The Screw- Book Quotes

Front 1

The story held us...

Back 1

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....

Front 2

I remember the whole beginning...

Back 2

As a succession of flights and drops, a little see saw of the right throbs and the wrong

Front 3

The manuscript is...

Back 3

'In a locked drawer- it has not been out for years'

Front 4

The seal on the letter regarding miles' expulsion is guarded by

Back 4

An 'unbroken seal' that requires 'great effort to open'

Front 5

The governess was the...

Back 5

'Youngest of several daughters of a poor country parson'

Front 6

The governess is .... Upon meeting the master

Back 6

'Fluttered and anxious'

Front 7

Douglas describes the governess as 'young...

Back 7

Untried and nervous'

Front 8

Upon arriving at Bly, the governess receives a curtesy..

Back 8

'As if I had been the mistess or a distinguished visitor'

Front 9

The gov describes herself as at the helm of...

Back 9

'A great drifting ship'

Front 10

How handsome is quint?

Back 10

'Remarkably so'

Front 11

Quints first appearance causes distress as...

Back 11

'An unknown man in a lonely place... Is a permitted object of fear to a young woman privately bred'

Front 12

Mrs grose is 'so glad' to see the gov that...

Back 12

She was 'positively on her guard against showing it too much'

Front 13

The gov confesses thar

Back 13

'Im rather easily carried away. I was carried away in London'

Front 14

When quint first appears, the governess describes her imagination as

Back 14

'My imagination, in a flash, had turned real'

Front 15

Bly is a trap for the governess'...

Back 15

Imagination... To whatever in me was most excitable

Front 16

When miles is discovered outside in the grounds at night the gob' believes miles had fallen into

Back 16

'A sharp trap'

Front 17

When miles admits his discovery was part of the children's plan, the gov admits

Back 17

'It was I who fell into the trap'

Front 18

Whilst describing quint, the gov...

Back 18

'Added stroke to stroke'

Front 19

What do the children know?

Back 19

'Why, all that we know- and heaven knows what more besides!'

Front 20

Teaching is characterised by

Back 20

'All the romance of the nursery and the poetry of the schoolroom'

Front 21

Miles is a👼

Back 21

'Little fairy prince'

Front 22

Before meeting quint for the first time, the gov' feels it would be

Back 22

'As charming as a charming story suddenly to meet someone'

Front 23

Quint is as definite as

Back 23

A picture in a frame

Front 24

Flora is the most

Back 24

'Beautiful child I had ever seen'

Front 25

The gov is _______ by miles presence

Back 25

Swept away

Front 26

Gov original conclusion over miles' expulsion from the school

Back 26

'He was only too fine and fair for the little horrid unclean school world'

Front 27

Declares she must be the saviour of the children

Back 27

The children in especial I should thus fence about and absolutely save

Front 28

The curtains around floras cot had been

Back 28

'Deceivingly pulled forward'

Front 29

'I held...

Back 29

Her tighter'

Front 30

The masters house is full of

Back 30

'The spoils of travel and the trophies of the chase'

Front 31

Miles' heart is...

Back 31

'Dispossessed'

Front 32

The children are in...

Back 32

'Possession of Bly'

Front 33

Mrs gross is a 'simple...

Back 33

'Plain wholesome woman'

Front 34

Strange passages and perils....

Back 34

Secret disorders, vices more than suspected

Front 35

Miss Jessel as

Back 35

'A woman in black'
A 'horror of horrors'

Front 36

When gov encounters quint for the second time,

Back 36

It rained with force

Front 37

At first Bly is full of

Back 37

'All the music of summer and the mystery of nature