The Aspern Papers

Henry James

earliest edition we have, 1956 Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010 hardcover 94 pages

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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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The Aspern Papers paperback · 2021 · Aeterna · 87 pages · 9781444415452
Aspern Papers edition · 2021 · Independently Published · 63 pages · 9798526282710
Aspern Papers (Esprios Classics) edition · 2021 · Blurb, Incorporated · 9781006816673
Aspern Papers edition · 2020 · Independently Published · 64 pages · 9798626332735
Aspern Papers edition · 2020 · Independently Published · 64 pages · 9798626332308
The Aspern Papers hardcover · 2020 · Bibliotech Press · 128 pages · 9781618958051
Aspern Papers edition · 2020 · Independently Published · 69 pages · 9798631266971
The Aspern Papers paperback · 2020 · Bibliotech Press · 126 pages · 9781618958044
The Aspern Papers paperback · 2019 · Independently published · 59 pages · 9781677633340
The Aspern Papers paperback · 2019 · Wentworth Press · 400 pages · 9780530119120
The Aspern Papers paperback · 2019 · Independently published · 100 pages · 9781701840089
The Aspern Papers hardcover · 2019 · Wentworth Press · 400 pages · 9780530119137

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