I HAD taken Mrs Prest into my confidence; without her in truth I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips.
An edition of The Aspern Papers
(1890)
The Aspern Papers (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Henry James, Robin Field, and Success Oceo
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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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Fiction, Poets, Man-woman relationships, Manuscripts, Collectors and collecting, Classic Literature, American Psychological fiction, Drama, English drama, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Venice (Italy), Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Venice (italy), fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, generalPlaces
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