Daisy Miller: Large Print Contributor(s): James, Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1674224001 ISBN-13: 9781674224008 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian |
Lexile Measure: 850 |
Physical Information: 0.14" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.39 lbs) 66 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland's Lac Leman, is one of James's most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy's friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller "lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision. |