Daisy Miller Henry James Author

by Henry James

2021-04-03 14:50:23

Traveling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she ta... Read more
Traveling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behavior leave her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces. This edition contains extensive overviews of both the author and the novel. Less

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File size6.00(w)x9.00(h)x0.12(d)
Print pages58
PublisherCreateSpace Publishing
Publication date November 28, 2015
ISBN9781519583437
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Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 Feb 1916) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be am...

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