The Aspern papers

The turn of the screw ; The liar ; The two faces

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Henry James: The Aspern papers (1908, Scribner)

Published Jan. 11, 1908 by Scribner.

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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.

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