127 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 1999 by Transaction Publishers.
The Aspern papers
by Henry James
Henry James: The Aspern papers (1999, Transaction Publishers)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-56000-486-8
- OCLC Number:
- 40668299
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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.
Subjects
- Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
- Large type books.
- Poets -- Fiction.
- Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.