- Fiction, Americans, Young women, Americans in fiction
A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne, who moves in fairly conservative circles. Their courtship is frowned upon by the other Americans they meet in Switzerland and Italy because Daisy is too vivacious and flirtatious and neither belongs to, nor follows the rules of, their society. The novella is a comment on American and European attitudes towards each other and on social and cultural prejudice.
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Henry James
- First published
- March 3, 1987
- Pages
- 75
- Publisher
- Atlantis Press, Thorndike Press, Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Editions
- 244
- Language
- Italian, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781079877007
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“At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.”
Henry James, was an American writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
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