The Aspern Papers

Henry James

⏱ 7 minAmerican classic

An obsessed literary editor lays a long, deceitful siege to a decaying Venetian palazzo to get at the priceless private letters of a dead poet, held by his impossibly old former lover. James's subtle, sinister novella of literary greed.

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