The Aspern Papers
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846372896 (1846372895)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: Echo Library
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
American,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Short Stories
“Furfante di uno scrittorucolo!” La gondola scivola pigramente lungo il Canal Grande, nell’abbraccio molle e indefinibile di un’estiva notte veneziana. Non lontano c’è il palazzo grigio e rosa, un tempo certamente splendido, residenza delle signorine Bordereau: l’ultracentenaria Juliana, che fu ...
Still not too sure about this daily lit thing. I skipped a few days (yesterday with plans to finish it today and another since I didn't have internet), but I think I would have gone crazy if this had been any longer than it was. I ended up not really caring that much about the papers. I was wrong ...
A pleasant, well narrated listen. The plot, in the final analysis, is a bit contrived. But everywhere deftly handled, of course.
A slow developing short story that builds up mild suspense right up to the very end. I enjoyed it, and although my reading of short stories is rather limited, I have to say that this was the perfect vehicle for the narrative. It begins very loosely threaded, making you somewhat wonder what the heck ...
BBC blurb - Henry James took as his inspiration for his tale The Aspern Papers the story of a mistress of Byron's who outlived the poet into lonely old age. He transposed the setting to Venice and cast the city he loved as a character in a taut narrative of literary theft and deception.Read by Samue...
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