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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 01/08/2002
ISBN: 9780375759666
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.10w x 0.27d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 68771 / Daisy Miller
Reading Level: 8.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 4