The Aspern Papers (Penguin Popular Classics)

Description

The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer 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 isbased on the letters Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Mary Shelley’sstepsister, Claire Clairmont, who saved the muntil she died. Set in Venice, The Aspern Papers demonstrates James’s ability to generate suspense while never neglecting the development of his characters.