There are so many commas in this book. There's just so many dependent clauses. And I was kind of thinking that it's a similar like you have to work through a lot of the sentences. But it's almost harder to do in James than Shakespeare. So there's but back to your point, whether or not this actually serves a purpose. In this one moment it did and I'll read it for you in just a second. But other times I don't think it did.
What makes a good ghost story? If you said creepy children, gothic architecture, and unreliable narrators, then Henry James has you covered The Turn of the Screw.
This week Andrew mangles words, Craig gets lost in James' Victorian prose, and the two solve the mystery surrounding the ghosts of Bly.
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