Daisy Miller

Name: Daisy Miller
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Henry James
ISBN: 9780140624144

Henry James

26/07/2007
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Daisy Miller par Henry James

Résumé

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.