Daisy Miller and Other Stories

Unique ElementsAuthor BiographyA Collection of Unmissable Short Stories by Henry JamesDaisy Miller and Other Stories by American author Henry James is a book of short stories first published between 1843-1908 in the US.A collection of six of James’s best known and most celebrated shorter works.Excerpt‘After this Daisy was never at home, and Winterbourne ceased to meet her at the houses of their common acquaintances, because, as he perceived, these shrewd people had quite made up their minds that she was going too far. They ceased to invite her, and they intimated that they desired to express observant Europeans the great truth that, though Miss Daisy Miller was a young American lady, her behaviour was not representative - was regarded by her compatriots as abnormal. Winterbourne wondered how she felt about all the cold shoulders that were turned towards her, and sometimes it annoyed him to suspect that she did not feel at all. He said to himself that she was too light and childish, too uncultivated and unreasoning, too provincial, to have reflected upon her ostracism or even to have perceived it. Then at other moments he believed that she carried about in her elegant and irresponsible little organism a defiant, passionate, perfectly observant consciousness of the impression she produced. He asked himself whether Daisy's defiance came from the consciousness of innocence or from her being, essentially, a young person of the reckless class. It must be admitted that holding oneself to a belief in Daisy's "innocence" came to see Winterbourne more and more a matter of fine-spun gallantry. As I have already had occasion to relate, he was angry at finding himself reduced to chopping logic about this young lady; he was vexed at his want of instinctive certitude as to how far her eccentricities were generic, national, and how far they were personal. From either view of them he had somehow missed her, and now it was too late.’SynopsisDaisy Miller is a novella by Henry James. Daisy Miller, a beautiful and spirited young American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most compelling and tragic characters. Bringing together some of Henry James’s most celebrated shorter works, the other stories included in this 6-story collection are: The Beast, Julia Bride, The Jolly Corner, The Figure in the Carpet and The Real Thing. A brilliant collection of classic stories, making for an unmissable read.Title Details◆ Original edition texts◆ Short stories / novellas◆ 5 x 8 in◆ Matte Cover◆ White Paper