Daisy Miller

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80 pages

English language

Published April 23, 2002 by Modern Library.

ISBN:
978-0-375-75966-6
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OCLC Number:
47837920

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A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne, who moves in fairly conservative circles. Their courtship is frowned upon by the other Americans they meet in Switzerland and Italy because Daisy is too vivacious and flirtatious and neither belongs to, nor follows the rules of, their society. The novella is a comment on American and European attitudes towards each other and on social and cultural prejudice.

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reviewed Daisy Miller by Henry James (The Modern library classics)

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A good novella. I enjoyed this more than Turn of the Screw. One of James’ earliest works that plays around with the distinctions between American and European “society” and norms during the 19th c. Character development is somewhat flat, but to be expected in something this short.

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Subjects

  • Americans -- Europe -- Fiction.
  • Young women -- Fiction.
  • Europe -- Fiction.