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Daisy Miller and Other Tales
Henry James
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Description for Daisy Miller and Other Tales
Paperback. Editor(s): Fender, Stephen; Fender, Stephen. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in Europe, and the meeting of the old world and new. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines - a young, independent American travelling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to disaster. Her story is here accompanied by six more set among English castles, Swiss hotels and French ports, and all riffing on a classic Jamesian theme: the clash between the old world and new, Europe and America. The ... Read more
A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in Europe, and the meeting of the old world and new. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines - a young, independent American travelling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to disaster. Her story is here accompanied by six more set among English castles, Swiss hotels and French ports, and all riffing on a classic Jamesian theme: the clash between the old world and new, Europe and America. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141389776
SKU
V9780141389776
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99-99
About Henry James
Henry James (Author) 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 ... Read more
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