Daisy Miller, 9780141441344
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Innocence abroad meets societal judgement: a young woman’s tragic fate.

Daisy Miller

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    6 August 2007

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Summary

Daisy Miller: Innocence Abroad

Travelling 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 behaviour…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141441344
ISBN-10:0141441348
Series:Penguin Classics
Author:Henry James, David Lodge
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:6 August 2007
Weight:102g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 8mm
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“The critical faculty hesitates before the magnitude of Mr. Henry James’s work.”- Joseph Conrad

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

About The Author

Henry James

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

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