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Daisy Miller

Aug 6, 2025 12:52 AM

Author:Henry James,David Lodge

Daisy Miller

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.

Reviews

A wonderfully engaging novel

—— Melissa McClements , Financial Times

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—— Charlotte Hobson , Daily Telegraph

It is a work of rare beauty - an utterly readable, compelling book

—— Craig Murray , New Statesman

A poet's novel, full of memorable descriptive passages and heart-wrenching asides

—— Independent

All picaresque exuberance, a jumble of influences from Persian to Soviet and beyond

—— Catherine Lockerbie , Sunday Herald

Strange and beautiful

—— The Times

Robert Chandler's tenderly attentive rendering of The Railway perfectly captures the dreamy, circling music of Hamid Ismailov's prose

—— Chandrahas Choudhury , Daily Telegraph

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

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—— InStyle

Warm, poignant and very funny

—— Marian Keyes

Hugely funny. Maxted writes beautifully

—— Daily Express

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world

—— Sunday Sport

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