num_pages: 126
description: Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquistely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social conventions in the way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of them? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behavior leaves her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of an enigmatic and independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.
language: English
title: Daisy Miller
titlecomplete: Daisy Miller
characters: Mrs Costello, Eugênio, Mrs Walker, Daisy Miller, Randolph Miller, Giovanelli, Mrs Miller, Frederick Winterbourne
genres: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Novella, Novels, School, Romance, Literature, 19th Century, American
ratings_count: 33244
places: Vevey, Rome
publisher: Penguin Classics