Daisy Miller, Henry James
Daisy Miller, Henry James
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Daisy Miller

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 2 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/06/2008


Synopsis

Daisy is as free as the air, but an innocent abroad. Her garden of earthly delights bristles with the thorns of youth, tradition and of love. "Hearing Daisy Miller, listeners will recognize the tragic difficulties of youth, love, and tradition. Flo Gibson reads splendidly and portrays Daisy with requisite innocence and insolence."-Booklist

About Henry James

American-born writer Henry James (1843–1916) authored 20 novels, 112 stories, 12 plays, and a number of literary criticisms.

James was born in New York City into a wealthy family. In his youth, James traveled back and forth between Europe and America. He studied with tutors in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of nineteen, he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but he was more interested in literature than law. James published his first short story, "A Tragedy of Errors," two years later and then devoted himself entirely to literature. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, he was a contributor to the Nation and Atlantic Monthly. His first novel, Watch and Ward, first appeared serially in the Atlantic.

After living in Paris, where he was a contributor to the New York Tribune, James moved to England. During his first years in Europe, James wrote novels that portrayed Americans living abroad. Between 1906 and 1910, he revised many of his tales and novels for the so-called New York edition of his complete works. Between 1913 and 1917, his three-volume autobiography-A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years (released posthumously)-was published. His last two novels, The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past, were left unfinished at his death.

Among James's masterpieces are Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, and The Wings of the Dove. In addition, James considered his 1903 work The Ambassadors his most "perfect" work of art.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue on August 05, 2014

I am reviewing here only Daisy Miller as I have read and reviewed Washington Square separately. I wasn't sure what to expect from this novella but I did expect characters that would grab my attention and make me care about them, their stories, the writing itself, something. Instead, sadly, I found m......more

Goodreads review by A0326t on September 27, 2010

I saw the film version of Washington Square with Olivia DeHavilland and then the stage play with Cherry Jones. Both were extremely good and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but, I think the book provided insight to the minds of the character. The transformation of Catherine, from the shy and timid girl to a......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on September 22, 2017

Daisy Miller. The story is told from the perspective of Winterbourne, a 27-year old American man who was educated in Europe, who is currently in Switzerland. He meets a beautiful young American lady, Daisy Miller, and is really quite taken with her. Daisy first appears to be the typical coquette, fli......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on April 20, 2020

Daisy Miller 3.5 Ladies grab your best pearls to clutch, gentlemen pick out your biggest cigar to choke on and you may want to grab a fan so that you can revive Aunt Milly. Daisy Miller is a short novel written by Henry James. The novel begins in Switzerland when Daisy’s 9 year old little brother Ra......more

Goodreads review by Ann on January 05, 2019

Daisy Miller by itself would get three stars. I greatly enjoyed Washington Square. I will paraphrase a quote from a critic from 1881. It's a dismal tale with no agreeable characters, nothing but commonplace feelings and actions, making us study a leaden-colored group of emotions to show us even amon......more