Daisy Miller -- Henry James

from Donna828

A frivolous, flirtatious young woman from America is visiting Europe with her negligent mother and rambunctious little brother. Left to her own devices, she spends her time walking about with men of suspicious reputations and in general turning up her nose at traditional European morals. Her comp...

from DeltaQueen50

Daisy Miller is a novella written by Henry James that was originally published in 1878. James delivers his story in a conversational, gossipy manner as he tells about the relations between men and women of the upper class during the Belle Epoch era, in particular, a story about a young, unsophist...

from Cecrow

The character Daisy Miller presents a bit of a mystery, appearing aloof from society's impressions and entirely uncaring. This perception is more than half the fault of the narrator, as it turns out, who is American by birth but has become European by habit. There's an autobiographical element to...

from Donna828

A frivolous, flirtatious young woman from America is visiting Europe with her negligent mother and rambunctious little brother. Left to her own devices, she spends her time walking about with men of suspicious reputations and in general turning up her nose at traditional European morals. Her comp...

from jolerie

He remembered that a cynical compatriot has once told him that American women - the pretty ones, and this gave a largeness to the axiom - were at once the most exacting in the world and the least endowed with a sense of indebtedness. Page 32 Daisy Miller is an young woman from Schenectady, New Yo...