The Aspern Papers (Penguin Popular Classics) - Tapa blanda

Penguin Popular Classics. Paperback. Book jacket: In an elegant and crumbling palazzo 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 (amener qq'un à faire qq ch par la ruse) the two ladies into taking him in as their lodger. There he watches and waits for the moment to pounce (sauter sur). For he is determined to gain possession of the Aspern papers and willing to pay almost any price.