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The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers

James, Henry

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1539513947
ISBN13: 9781539513940
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 14 2016
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
The Aspern Papers is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James's best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on the letters Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Mary Shelley's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, who saved them until she died. Set in Venice, The Aspern Papers demonstrates James's ability to generate suspense while never neglecting the development of his characters. James (a very private man) examines the conflicts involved when a biographer seeks to pry into the intimate life of his subject. James paints the nameless narrator of The Aspern Papers as, in Juliana's words, a publishing scoundrel, but also generates sympathy for the narrator as he tries to work the papers loose from Juliana, who is presented as greedy, domineering and unappealing.

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