The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is available here as the complete text, split into 482 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
A young governess at an isolated English estate realizes her two angelic pupil charges are communicating with dead spirits.
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The Turn of the Screw
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