Pub Date: January 8, 2002
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001044626
Lexile Code: 0850
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.27" H x 8.10" L x 5.10" W ( 0.20 lbs) 112 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Historical | General | Literary
Series: Modern Library Classics
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."
Review Quotes: "The critical faculty hesitates before the magnitude of Mr. Henry James's work."--Joseph Conrad