The Aspern Papers and Other Stories 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. Aspern"s lost world of beauty and romance still seems to hand in the glamorous air of Venice, but the price of admission turns out to involve another party, the old woman"s unmagical niece. What exactly is Aspern"s admi... Full description