SOURCE: “How the Screw Is Turned: James's Amusette,” in University of Mississippi Studies in English, Vol. 4, 1983, pp. 112–31.
In the following essay, Scott explains the importance of children's games, pranks, and activities in The Turn of the Screw.
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