THE ASPERN PAPERS

In a elegant and crumbling palazo old Miss Bordereau lives on with her niece,closely guarding her most precious treasure,a hoard of letters written to her in her youth by the great American love poet jeffrey Aspern.Adopting a nom de guerre the tale's narrator,a literary researcher,arrives at the palazzo and inveigles the two ladies into taking him in as their lodger.there he watches and waits for the moment to pounce.For he is determind to gain possession of the Aspern papers and willing to pay almost any price.作者简介： Henry James（1843-1916），American novelist,play-wright,essaysit and critic,James remains one of the most infulential of the literary figures who were writing at the turn of the century. The Aspern papers(1888)is a fine example of what james termed a tale-too short for a novel and too long for a short story.In creating a world from a single incident and weaving his plot around it ,he reveals his unique mastery of the genre.