‘I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?
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 leave her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.
This edition has a fascinating introduction by Geoffrey Moore in which he explores the themes of innocence and experience in the novel, and notes by Patricia Crick.
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‘I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?
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 leave her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.
This edition has a fascinating introduction by Geoffrey Moore in which he explores the themes of innocence and experience in the novel, and notes by Patricia Crick.
Imprint | Penguin Books |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Series | Penguin Classics |
Release date | October 1986 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
Authors | Henry James |
Editors | Geoffrey Moore, P. Crick |
Dimensions | 198 x 128 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - B-format |
Pages | 128 |
Edition | Reissue |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-043262-6 |
Barcode | 9780140432626 |
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LSN | 0-14-043262-0 |