80 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 2001 by Dover Publications.
Henry James: The Aspern papers (2001, Dover Publications)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-486-41922-0
- OCLC Number:
- 46918161
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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.
Subjects
- Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
- Poets -- Fiction.
- Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.