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THE MAP OF TIME By Félix J. Palma and THE TURN OF THE SCREW By Henry James Copyright This omnibus edition first published HarperCollins 2011© The Turn of the Screw This edition of The Turn of the Screw first published by HarperCollins in 2011 Life & Times section by Gerard Cheshire Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from Collins English Dictionary The Map of Time Copyright © Felix Palma 2008 Translation copyright © Nick Caistor 2011 First published in Spanish as El Mapa Del Tiempo 2008 Felix Palma asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 9780007344123 Ebook edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780007344147 Version 2 These novels are entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them are the work of the authors’ imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780007344154 Version: 2016-10-04 Contents THE MAP OF TIME THE TURN OF THE SCREW FELIX PALMA
The Map of Time
Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
‘The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.’
ALBERT EINSTEIN
‘Mankind’s most perfectly terrifying work of art is the division of time.’
ELIAS CANETTI
‘What is waiting for me in the direction I don’t take?’
JACK KEROUAC Contents PART ONE Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII PART TWO Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Chapter XXV Chapter XXVI Chapter XXVII Chapter XXVIII Chapter XXIX Chapter XXX Chapter XXXI Chapter XXXII Chapter XXXIII PART THREE Chapter XXXIV Chapter XXXV Chapter XXXVI Chapter XXXVII Chapter XXXVIII Chapter XXXIX Chapter XL Chapter XLI Chapter XLII Chapter XLIII About the Author PART ONE Chapter I Andrew Harrington would gladly have died several times over if that meant not having to choose just one pistol from among his father’s vast collection in the living-room cabinet. Decisions had never been Andrew’s strong point. On close examination, his life had been a series of mistaken choices, the last of which threatened to cast its lengthy shadow over the future. But that life of unedifying blunders was about to end. This time he was sure he had made the right decision, because he had decided not to decide. There would be no more mistakes in the future because there would be no future. He was going to destroy it completely by putting one of those guns to his right temple. He could see no other solution: obliterating the future was the only way for him to eradicate the past. He scanned the contents of the cabinet, the lethal assortment his father had lovingly assembled after his return from the war. He was fanatical about those weapons, though Andrew suspected it was not so much nostalgia that drove him to collect them as his desire to contemplate the novel ways mankind kept coming up with for taking one’s own life outside the law. In stark contrast to his father, Andrew was impassive as he surveyed the apparently docile, almost humdrum implements that had brought thunder to men’s fingertips and freed war from the unpleasantness of hand-to-hand combat. He tried to imagine what kind of death might be lurking inside each of
