Felony: The Private History of "The Aspern Papers"

by EmmaTennant (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.28

  Felony is about the misdemeanours inherent in writing; theft, false memory, plagarism and greed for celebrity. It demonstrates the embarrassment and shame suffered by those who steal from and exploit others in their quest, but who go on and do it all the same.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.83

  Felony is the story of the literary treachery that took place at No. 43 via Romana, Florence, where Claire Clairmont, once lover of Lord Byron and mother of his daughter Allegra, lived until her death in 1879. It is also the story on Henry Jame's brilliant novella The Aspern Papers , which is based on that household and the nefarious doings of the lodger there, Edward Augustus Silsbee, thief and Shelleyite. Felony is about the misdemeanours inherent in writing - theft, false memory, plagiarism and greed for celebrity - and it demonstrates too the embarrassment and shame suffered in their quest.