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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... Read Full Overview

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. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of... Read Full Overview

A special edition with 48 illustrations by Harry McVickar from an early edition.

Daisy Miller first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne,... Read Full Overview

Annie "Daisy" Miller and Frederick Winterbourne first meet in Vevey, Switzerland, in a garden of the grand hotel, where Winterbourne is allegedly vacationing from his studies (an attachment to an older lady is rumoured. They are introduced by Randolph Miller, Daisy's nine-year-old... Read Full Overview

Daisy Miller is a novel by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June-July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her... Read Full Overview

Henry James' novella "Daisy Miller" portrays the clash between American innocence and European sophistication in the late nineteenth century. Daisy Miller, a lovely and unusual young woman, arrives in Europe with her family, disrupting the rigid social rules of the Old World,... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Annie "Daisy" Miller and Frederick Winterbourne first meet in Vevey, Switzerland, in a beautiful garden of the grand hotel where Winterbourne is on holiday from his studies. They are introduced by Randolph Miller, Daisy's 9-year-old brother.

Here is Henry James classic masterpiece, Daisy Miller. Daisy is a youthful, exuberant American girl vacationing in Europe. She typifies the brashness of America--a brashness that clashes with the European society to which she finds herself drawn. This poignant tragedy plays out... Read Full Overview

Henry James' novella "Daisy Miller" portrays the clash between American innocence and European sophistication in the late nineteenth century. Daisy Miller, a lovely and unusual young woman, arrives in Europe with her family, disrupting the rigid social rules of the Old World,... Read Full Overview

Daisy Miller, a young American woman of stunning beauty who is visiting Europe with her family, gives her fellow countryman Winterbourne a problem he cannot solve. Is she purposefully disobeying societal norms with her blunt speech and actions, or is she just unaware of them?... Read Full Overview

Henry James' renowned early novella of innocents abroad, Daisy Miller recounts the escapades and misadventures of a "mobile affluent American girl" and her family on a European tour. This affordable student edition reprints and lightly annotates the text of the 1878 first... Read Full Overview