Daisy Miller - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934648078 ISBN 13: 9781934648070

Publisher: Norilana Books, 2007

Synopsis

Daisy Miller (1878) by Henry James is the story of the exuberant and naïve Daisy Miller, a young American girl who flirts and partakes of young life to its fullest while visiting Europe. Daisy meets the more subtle and self-aware Winterbourne and their romance ends in misfortune.

The portrait of Daisy is a quintessential exploration of the social mores of her era. And her flirtatious disregard of them is simultaneously a breath of fresh air and the heart of tragedy.

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: Norilana Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1934648078
• ISBN 13: 9781934648070
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112