Daisy Miller : Annotated Edition (Alma Classics 101 Pages)

Author(s): James, Henry
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 24/09/2021,
Pagination: 160 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781847498656,
Description:

When

the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller

in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty,

but slightly unsettled by her open ways and her flirtatiousness. Undeterred

by this and by his aunt’s disapproval, he invites her to join him in a jaunt

to a nearby castle, little suspecting that this will set in train a sequence

of events that promises to be a source of heartache and disappointment for

him, and threatens to compromise his own social acceptability.

One of Henry James’s most enduringly popular works, Daisy Miller, here

published in its 1909 version, incorporating the author’s final revisions, is

a masterly, psychologically nuanced dissection of social mores and a merciless

critique of convention and staid respectability.