Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts—Collectors and collecting—Fiction [Browse]
• Venice (Italy)—Fiction [Browse]

Editor

• Poole, Adrian [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Poole, Adrian [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford World's Classics

Summary note

An unscrupulous critic, determined to get his hands on the private papers of a great poet, finds himself duelling with the grim old lady who was once the poet's mistress and muse.

Notes

This edition previously issued in print: 2013.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• The Aspern papers
• The death of the lion
• The figure in the carpet
• The birthplace
• Extracts from James's prefaces to the New York edition
• Extracts from James's Notebooks
• Stage and screen versions of 'The Aspern papers'
• Variant readings.

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ISBN

• 0-19-163792-0
• 0-19-192354-0

OCLC

• 958580497
• 1119611819

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