Paperback, 84 pages
Published Jan. 11, 1959 by Samuel French Ltd.
Paperback, 84 pages
Published Jan. 11, 1959 by Samuel French Ltd.
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.