Fiction, Poets, Man-woman relationships, Manuscripts
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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Intimate, grave, prestige and nostalgic.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Henry James, Robin Field
- First published
- January 27, 1977
- Pages
- 100
- Publisher
- Collins, Bibliotech Press, Transaction Publishers
- Editions
- 91
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781636003566
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En l'absence des hommes 200175% alikeBoth grave, prestige, intimate.
