Daisy Miller (Unabridged)

Daisy Miller (Unabridged)

Title: Daisy Miller (Unabridged)
Author: Henry James
Release: 2024-10-30
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Nonfiction
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Daisy Miller (Unabridged) Henry James
Daisy Miller is the story of a beautiful, unconventional American girl who becomes the fascination of Frederick Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot. His pursuit of her is hampered by her flirtatiousness and flagrant disregard for the customs and behavior of the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy. 

Henry James used Daisy's story to exemplify how he believed Europeans and Americans felt about each other, and more generally the prejudices common in the culture at that time between wealthy American industrialists and European aristocracy. 

Daisy Miller was an immediate and widespread popular success for James, despite some criticism that the story was "an outrage on American girlhood". 

The story continues to be one of James' most popular works, along with The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady

This narration is from the original text which was published in 1879. 

In 1909 Henry James published a second version of Daisy Miller, which, in spite of his preferring it, never had the critical or commercial acclaim of the earlier version.  

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