Author:Henry James,Ellie Kendrick
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Ellie Kendrick, known for her role as Meera Reed in Game of Thrones, she has also starred in Vanity Fair, and The Diary of Anne Frank. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by David Lodge, read by Roy McMillan.
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.
An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised Lucy Westenra, is my favourite
—— Sarah WatersIt is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror
—— Bram Stoker’s MotherIn my opinion Dracula is about how suffocating Victorian times were. The bonus is, you get vampires!
—— Ryan AdamsVery funny...I cracked up laughing on the tube
—— Evening StandardThe Winter of the Witch, the third in Katherine Arden's magical Winternight Trilogy, creates a layered world full of Russian myths and legends
—— EMERALD STREETA historical fantasy perfect for those who love ancient stories and tradition
—— Good HousekeepingLike McEwan's other work, The Cockroach is a beautifully written novella and an in-depth critique of Britain's current political situation… I found this an exciting and inventive retelling of Kafka's classic tale, and a clever commentary on not just Brexit, but modern British politics as a whole.
—— Meg Horridge , SCANAn extraordinary book which can truly be said to break new ground
—— New YorkerThe outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book
—— Edmund White, , New York Times Book ReviewSensitive, thoughtful and rich with the spoils of its author's plunder of the past
—— Irish IndependentThis is a tremendous book: affecting, intelligent, ironic, humane and utterly convincing. It is also extremely funny
—— SpectatorA brilliant read
—— Dermot O'Leary , Waitrose WeekendA rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale
—— Nicolette Jones, The Sunday TimesHigh-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting
—— The Times
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