The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

by Henry James

Overview

"The Aspern Papers" is the story of an unnamed narrator who travels to Venice in search of some letters by Jeffrey Aspern, a famous and now dead American poet. Inspired by a true story about a fan of the poet Shelley who sought out similar papers, "The Aspern Papers" is one of Henry James's more popular novellas. It is included in this volume with the following three shorter works by Henry James: "The Private Life", "The Middle Years", and "The Death of the Lion".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420936261
Publisher:	Digireads.com Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	1160L (what's this?)
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, and Washington Square for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse with Jeremy Maule (1995; reissued 2000), and the author of Tragedy: a Very Short Introduction (2005).

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

Table of Contents

IntroductionNote on the TextsSelect BibliographyChronology'The Aspern Papers''The Death of the Lion''The Figure in the Carpet''The Birthplace'Appendix 1: extracts from James's Prefaces for the New York EditionAppendix 2: extracts from James's NotebooksAppendix 3: stage and screen versions of 'The Aspern Papers'Appendix 4: variant readingsExplanatory Notes