Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Henry James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140432620 ISBN 13: 9780140432626

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 1988

Synopsis

Daisy Miller, a naive young American woman traveling in Europe with her family, finds it difficult to understand Europen society

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Originally published in "The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, "Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland's Lac Leman, is one of James's most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy's friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller "lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision."

From the Back Cover:

“The critical faculty hesitates before the magnitude of Mr. Henry James’s work.”—Joseph Conrad

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140432620
• ISBN 13: 9780140432626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126
• Editor: Patricia Crick, Geoffrey Moore