The Turn of the Screwwas published in five authorized forms during Henry James's life: as a serial inCollier's Weeklyearly in 1898, as one of two tales in a “duplex” edition published simultaneously in America and England in October 1898, as the second of four works in a volume of the New York Edition in 1908, and as the first volume ofThe Uniform Tales of Henry James, edited by Martin Secker in 1915. The first version, in addition to the frame narrative and twenty-four chapters, was divided into twelve installments and five “Parts.” The version published in the duplex edition under the titleThe Two Magicswas altered to suppress these “Parts,” delete the ending of one chapter, raise Flora's age, and place “more focus. . . on the governess,” among other minor alterations (James,The Turn of the Screw87). The New York Edition underwent even more substantial alterations.
