The Independent - London, July 3rd, 1996
"What are you up to?" What indeed? Biographical hound and literary scholar Henry Jarvis has inveigled the suspicious, resplendently dressed Mrs Prest into gaining entrance to the shuttered Venetian home of the sequestered Misses Bordereau and she and we want to know why.
Obligingly, the anti-hero explains the dastardly task at hand. Jarvis is obsessed with the poet Jeffrey Aspern, whom he believes to have been in love with the now nearly 100-year-old Miss Havisham-like Juliana. Furthermore, he knows she has letters and papers attesting to their relationship, which he will go to any lengths to...
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