Aspern Papers
Author: first_name: Henry
last_name: James
Language: English
Year: 1888

One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers  tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, but now dead, American poet. His attempts to secure them from the poet’s former lover and her niece, now recluses in Venice, are stymied both by them, and by his own mistakes in his quest.