Daisy Miller
Famous novella, rich in psychological and social insight, chronicles a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences.
Famous novella, rich in psychological and social insight, chronicles a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101200179 (1101200170)
Publish date: March 3rd 1987
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
19th Century,
Short Stories
With my secondhand e-reader I've finally been able to make use of the amazing resource known as Project Gutenberg. I'd a hankering for Henry James for a few weeks before I decided to dabble with 'Daisy Miller'. I didn't know what I was expecting, obviously, because for all of its short length there ...
A pointless story? What I don't enjoy, is when someone gives me details of someone I have no attachment to, and I am expected to care. Daisy was a horrid young lady who simply made a show of herself, then died. And?
I wrote a nice little review of this and of course lost it. Maybe later.
I understand that, for the time period, it was a provocative piece on the differences between American and European values. I also understand that Henry James was an Anglophile and he eventually immigrated to England, so his appreciation of British rigidity and his impatience with American nonchalan...
I finished this book a few weeks ago, but I wanted to take some time to think about it before writing a review. I kept going back and forth in my head over whether I liked this or not. I finally came down on the side of liking it. A lot. I love that the narrator, much as he would like to be an i...
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