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A story of 'spoils and stratagems', The Aspern Papers is set in a crumbling Venetian palazzo, where an old woman treasures up some letters sent to her by the great American poet, Aspern. When a zealous literary historian arrives and attempts to prise the letters from her, he finds his charm, ingenuity and morals stretched to breaking point.
'It is a most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' wrote Oscar Wilde of The Turn of the Screw, James's most puzzling and controversial work. In the story of a governess newly in charge of two small children, haunted by ghosts, our imagination is miraculously set free to conjure up terrors never precisely named or explained.

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York of Scottish and Irish ancestry. He studied in New York, London, Geneva and Paris. In Paris he met literary figures such as Flaubert and Turgenev. He wrote some twenty novels, many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel.
Geoffrey Moore is General editor for works of Henry James in Penguin Classics.
Anthony Curtis was Literary Editor of the Financial Times for twenty years.