Daisy Miller (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Daisy Miller Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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 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.”

Shelfari edited the contributors of Daisy Miller Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Henry James: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Daisy Miller Thursday, July 16 2009.

• At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.