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The Aspern Papers

Author
Henry James
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
3 hours 27 minutes
ISBN
9781802560732
Published
26 September 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Henry James
  • mystery
  • stream of consciousness
  • philosophical
  • psychological
  • nostalgic
  • soulful
  • inner emotion
  • American classic
  • urban life

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Description

In Venice an ambitious American editor schemes to seize poet Jeffrey Aspern’s private papers from elderly Juliana Bordereau, using her niece Miss Tina’s affection as a key. Secrecy, manipulation, and literary hunger drive James’s novella. Spoken as when desire for a dead man’s words costs a living woman’s trust and still may not be enough.

Author

Henry James (1843–1916) is among the supreme novelists in English — an American who made Europe his stage and consciousness his subject. In The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove he traced Americans abroad through drawing rooms, secrets, and moral choice with unmatched psychological precision. James wrote sentences that think: long, exacting, and alive to every shade of feeling between people.

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