The Aspern Papers

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Telemaco Signorini, Giuseppe De Nittis and Giovanni Fattori. A literary scholar takes rooms in a decaying Venetian palazzo under a false name, because the old woman upstairs was once a great poet's lover and still has his letters. James got the idea from a real hunt for Shelley's papers, and wrote the sharpest thing anyone has written about the ...