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 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...
There was a coquette in VeveyWho lived very much "the American Way."She was candid, daring, kind, and gay,"A tease!" Winterbourne might say,For he thinks her heart did stray(With Giovanni down in Romehe thought her fickle heart at roam).But dear Daisy, for she couldn't lie,she loved, lost, then she ...
This book suffers of an incurable oldness decay.And yet its prose and style are very elegant, accurate and even enjoyable for those who don't mind Daisy Miller's advanced age.From cosmopolitan Vevey (not yet known as the Charlie Chaplin's buen retiro) to a Grand Tour-shaped Rome where there are more...
I've been reading the ebook of this on my iPod entirely on the nights when my insomnia was bad; this means it's been a few pages here and a few there so I think this may have spoiled my take on the book. It's a short novel so I think it would have been more enjoyable and had more of an impact had I ...
Maybe I gave this book a lower rating because the heroine drove me crazy. She was such a selfish, egocentric (I guess these two words mean the same but if you've read this book, you'll know what I mean). Very sad ending.
I really don't get why Americans consider Daisy Miller as an offense to them. She's so innocent, free-spirited, bold and eager to know the local people. Because Giovanelli is anything but below her 'status' and it's quite obvious he's not after her money. The real offense would be Winterbourne; He'...
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