About this book
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.
- Fiction
- Poets
- Man-woman relationships
- Manuscripts
- Collectors and collecting
- Classic Literature
- American Psychological fiction
- Drama
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