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Set in Florence in the 1870s, the story is the background to Henry James’s The Aspern Papers, based on the household of Claire Clairmont, once lover of Lord Byron, and the nefarious doings of her lodger, Edward Silsbee, literary thief.
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Review:
'An entertaining and super-subtle post-feminist rewriting of feminist rewritings.' -- Toby Litt, The Guardian
'Felony keeps you riveted with its rich taste for character and the mixture of comedy and pathos that surrounds them.' -- The Independent on Sunday
'It's a good idea, cleverly contrived and fluently written...it successfully creates an imaginative world that stays with you.' -- The Spectator
'Lovers of literary detective stories will find hours of entertainment in unpicking Felony's tangled weave of fact and invention...a triumph of ingenuity.' -- Jane Shilling, The Times
'Written in a clever, and often funny, pastiche of the Master's grand middle style, and they give a vivid picture of him as a character from one of his novels.' -- TLS
From the Publisher:
'Felony keeps you riveted with its rich taste for character and the mixture of comedy and pathos that surrounds them.' -- The Independent on Sunday
'It's a good idea, cleverly contrived and fluently written...it successfully creates an imaginative world that stays with you.' -- The Spectator
'Lovers of literary detective stories will find hours of entertainment in unpicking Felony's tangled weave of fact and invention...a triumph of ingenuity.' -- Jane Shilling, The Times
'Written in a clever, and often funny, pastiche of the Master's grand middle style, and they give a vivid picture of him as a character from one of his novels.' -- TLS
A delicious tale of literary theft.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 009945209X
- ISBN 13 9780099452096
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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