Publication

2012-02-02 - Empire Books

Word Count

26,500 words, Guess

Page Count

106 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101619493209
  • ISBN-139781619493209
  • Open LibraryOL32891592M

Description

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.

First Sentence

I HAD taken Mrs Prest into my confidence; without her in truth I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips.

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