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Daisy Miller: A Study

Author
Henry James
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
2 hours 19 minutes
ISBN
9781802560091
Published
10 August 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • American girl
  • social conventions
  • cultural clash
  • European society
  • innocence
  • scandal
  • romance
  • societal judgment
  • expatriate
  • character study

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Young American Daisy Miller travels Europe and scandalises high society with her free manners, while Frederick Winterbourne watches, desires, and judges her. James's study of cultural clash, innocence under suspicion, and social cruelty dressed as manners. Spoken as when charm meets a code that will not forgive her for being herself.

Author

Henry James (1843–1916) is among the supreme novelists in English — an American who made Europe his stage and consciousness his subject. In The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove he traced Americans abroad through drawing rooms, secrets, and moral choice with unmatched psychological precision. James wrote sentences that think: long, exacting, and alive to every shade of feeling between people.

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