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The Aspern Papers
Henry James
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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.
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.
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"What do YOU know? You are ignorant," Miss Bordereau remarked; not with acerbity but with a strange, soft coldness.
"Yes, of money—certainly of money!" Miss Tita hastened to exclaim.
"I am sure you have your own branches of knowledge," I took the liberty of saying, genially. There was something painful to me, somehow, in the turn the conversation had taken, in the discussion of the rent.
"She had a very good education when she was young. I looked into that myself," said Miss Bordereau. Then she added, "But she has learned nothing since."
"I have always been with you," Miss Tita rejoined very mildly, and evidently with no intention of making an epigram.
"Yes, but for that!" her aunt declared with more satirical force. She evidently meant that but for this her niece would never have got on at all; the point of the observation however being lost on . . . Read More
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Giallo veneziano d'autore
"Il carteggio Aspern", breve e bellissimo romanzo, venne scritto da H. James nel 1887 durante un suo soggiorno in Italia.
Lo spunto deriva da un fatto di cui sentì parlare: un fervido ammiratore di Shelley, avendo saputo che l'ormai anziana amante di Byron (e madre di Allegr
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It's really hard to think feeling weak in the presence of sheer beauty, having your breath taken away and being hypnotised!
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Not much has changed since I finished reading. I still feel almost as infatuated with this novella as the nameless narrator was obsessed with Je
In the section of his Moral Discourses entitled How a person can preserve their proper character in any situation the Stoic philosopher Epictetus says “You are the one who knows yourself – which is to say, you know how much you are worth in your own estimation, and therefore at what price you will s