Daisy Miller
Title | Daisy Miller PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2011-11-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 155111030X |
Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes. This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.
Daisy Miller, a Study
Title | Daisy Miller, a Study PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Daisy Miller
Title | Daisy Miller PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2018-01-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781984219046 |
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."
Daisy Miller
Title | Daisy Miller PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN |
Daisy Miller: A Study
Title | Daisy Miller: A Study PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2022-09-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368241192 |
Reproduction of the original.
Daisy Miller
Title | Daisy Miller PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Daisy Miller
Title | Daisy Miller PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James |
Publisher | |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 2018-09-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781724010353 |
"They are hopelessly vulgar. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike, at any rate; and for this short life that is quite enough."Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June-July 1878, and in book form the following year.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."