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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.”
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Daisy Miller, Henry James
- Language
- Released
- 1974
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- Title
- Daisy Miller
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Henry James
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1974
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140038833
- ISBN13
- 9780140038835
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Women, Classics, American Literature, Stories, Southern Europe, Italy, Society, Literary Fiction, Europe, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Novellas, Teens, Rome, Switzerland, Roma, Gypsies, Emancipation, Foreign Languages, Outsider, Unhappy Love, Americans
- First published
- 1878
- Original title
- Daisy Miller
- Rating
- 3.3 out of 5
- Description
- 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.”