Daisy Miller

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."

Author: Henry James
Publisher: Random House Group
Published: 01/08/2002
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.10w x 0.27d
ISBN13: 9780375759666
ISBN10: 0375759662
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of many books and essays, including Herman Melville (Penguin Lives), Sleepless Nights, and American Fictions, available as a Modern Library paperback. She lives in New York City.