Daisy Miller: A Study - Brossura

James, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141441348 ISBN 13: 9780141441344

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2007

Riassunto

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behaviour leave her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.

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Recensione:

“The critical faculty hesitates before the magnitude of Mr. Henry James’s work.”—Joseph Conrad

L'autore:

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141441348
• ISBN 13: 9780141441344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Redattore: Lodge David, Horne Philip