| Daisy Miller Contributor(s): James, Henry (Author), Hardwick, Elizabeth (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0375759662 ISBN-13: 9780375759666 Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch) OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001044626 |
| Lexile Measure: 850 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.1" W x 8.1" (0.20 lbs) 112 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 68771 Reading Level: 8.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |