Daisy Miller : A Study in two Parts (Paperback)

from classyhomemaker

I think Daisy Miller can be summed up in one simple question: Do you want to fit in with society or do you want to be happy? Unfortunately, it's usually impossible to do both well -- no matter what era of history you've lived in. Daisy is my current favorite heroine. Like Winterbourne's first im...

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...

from gwendolyndawson

A flirtatious and vacuous American girl meets a European gentlemen. The girl is ultimately destroyed by her own frivolity and innocence. To me, this story is allegorical, with implications far broader than it first appears. Classic Henry James. Recommended.

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...