Paperback, 96 pages
English language
Published June 30, 2004 by Kessinger Publishing.
The Aspern Papers
by Henry James
Henry James: The Aspern Papers (Paperback, 2004, Kessinger Publishing)
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With a decaying Venetian villa as a backdrop, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest for the personal documents of a deceased Romantic poet, one Jeffrey Aspern. Led by his mission into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, he is ultimately faced with relinquishing his heart's desire or attaining it at an overwhelming price.
With a decaying Venetian villa as a backdrop, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest for the personal documents of a deceased Romantic poet, one Jeffrey Aspern. Led by his mission into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, he is ultimately faced with relinquishing his heart's desire or attaining it at an overwhelming price.
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- Classic fiction
- Literature: Classics
- Fiction
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Classics