Henry James
Originally published in ,The Cornhill Magazine, in 1878 and in book form in 1879, ,Daisy Miller, brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerlandâ€™s Lac Leman, is one of Jamesâ€™s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisyâ€™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 â€œlives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.â€
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Daisy Miller