In Venice, in a dilapidated, dusty palazzo, lives old Miss Bordero and her niece, zealously guarding her treasure, a bundle of letters written to her in her youth by the famous poet Jeffrey Aspern, who fell in love with her. The narrator, a literary critic, enters the palace under a fictitious name, renting rooms in it. He is determined to seize Asperno's legacy at any cost ... The novella "Asperno's Letters" constantly keeps the reader in suspense, this work is considered one of the best in the work of Henry James.
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