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Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller | Henry Jr. James
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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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IndoorDame
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I was inspired by @Cuilin choosing to start off her #funsizedfiction adventure with this classic to grab a copy for myself. I had mixed feelings so maybe a low pick or a high so-so… The writing itself is fabulous, & it definitely got me thinking. There were also a few scenes that were just fantastic! But I couldn‘t appreciate it the way I was meant to because my politics are just too far removed from the social mores of the time it was written,

IndoorDame and the character whose thoughts we follow closely is narrowly focused on those social politics, and not developed more fully to make him sympathetic. 2y
Cuilin Wonderful review. Thanks for joining in. My daughter, and I had the same conversation about reading classic novels with contemporary eyes and the mental gymnastics you have to go through to have a modicum of sympathy for some characters. 2y
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Cuilin
Daisy Miller: A Study | Henry James
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Wonderfully quick #funsizefiction read. An early James novella about a young woman refusing to be constrained by societies “manners”. Story told through the eyes of an admiring young man. The introduction infuriatingly suggested that since James wrote heterosexual relationships so well proves he couldn‘t have been a closeted gay man. What?

IndoorDame Okay. Skipping the intro if I have time for this one. Appreciate the heads up! 2y
Cuilin @IndoorDame it‘s less than 100 pages so it really seems more of a short story. I usually read the introduction afterwards to avoid spoilers. I recommend skipping this one altogether. 2y
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Cuilin
Daisy Miller | Henry Jr. James
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#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

“At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.”

So begins my #funsizefiction

IndoorDame Ooh, what a pretty copy! 2y
Cuilin @IndoorDame Thanks. I was just discussing that with my daughter as it‘s her copy. She‘s reading a penguin copy of Mansfield Park right now and we were saying we would love to see the original paintings of some of the art that‘s on the covers of Penguin books. (edited) 2y
dabbe Penguin does great covers, don't they? The AGNES GREY one is gorgeous, too! 🤗 2y
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Maggie4483
Daisy Miller: A Study | Henry James
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I may have been watching too much Inventing Anna…after this paragraph, I read all of Daisy Miller‘s lines in that Anna Delvey accent.

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guidosophia
Daisy Miller: A Study | Henry James
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had to read it for class. i appreciated that it was very short but it also wasn‘t very interesting. gotta love old time slut shaming though

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Staci
Daisy Miller: A Study | Henry James
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Mehso-so

Quick read about a woman who flirts with a young man that comes with consequences. Its was pretty good. Wanted it to be longer though.

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LeahBergen
Daisy Miller | Henry Jr. James
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I think this is the shortest classic I‘ve read (or the shortest one on my shelves, anyhow, at 92 pages).🤔

#ShortestClassicYouRead
#MayLovesClassics
#LitsyClassics

ReadZenRites The portrait in the background 🤩🤩 7y
rubyslippersreads Gorgeous photo and portrait! 😍 7y
LeahBergen @ReadZenRites @rubyslippersreads Thanks! I “saved” her from an antique auction when no one was bidding on her. 😂 I call her “Daisy” as she reminds me of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. 7y
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ReadZenRites That‘s awesome! Glad she went to a good home, and was given a proper name!😁 7y
Chrissyreadit You have the prettiest reading life! 7y
Reviewsbylola That portrait is amazing. 😍 7y
Suet624 Love this photo. 6y
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Emilymdxn
Daisy Miller | Henry Jr. James
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This was a gorgeous short little thing. I‘m always so blown away when books so short can pack so many hints at so many emotions and so many possible stories into so few words. I haven‘t read any Henry James in years and even then not much (he‘s not that much of a presence in England I guess?) but I can see why he‘s such a big deal

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draumfari
Daisy Miller: A Study | Henry James
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Held high hopes in this book, but ended up not enjoying it very much.

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Lcsmcat
Daisy Miller: A Study | Henry James
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LibrarianRyan 👍🤓 7y
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hfbookish
Daisy Miller | Henry Jr. James
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Honestly one of the reasons why i love and prefer to stay in my room ❤️📚

#bookworm #reading #bookshelf #bibliophile #bookish #bookcommunity

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paperboats91
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"The young lady meanwhile had drawn near. She was dressed in white muslin, with a hundred frills and flounces, and knots of pale-coloured ribbon. She was bare-headed; but she balanced in her hand a large parasol with a deep border of embroidery; and she was strikingly, admirably pretty." #daisymiller #henryjames #americanliterature #booksandmaps #litstudent

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Julia98
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ZachHerman
Daisy Miller: A Study | Henry James
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He felt angry at all his shifting views--he felt ashamed of all his tender little scruples and all his witless little mercies.

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ZachHerman
Daisy Miller: A Study | Henry James

"They're hopelessly vulgar," said Mrs. Costello. "Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being bad is a question for the metaphysicians. They're bad enough to blush for, at any rate; and for this short life that's quite enough."

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schmia
Daisy Miller | Henry Jr. James
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[SPOILER AHEAD BECAUSE THE 'CONTAINS SPOILER' BUTTON IS APPARENTLY NOT WORKING FOR THIS POST??]

I was assigned to read this in college back-to-back with Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes and mainly remember wondering what was up with having to read all these novels where a woman was torn between 2 men and death apparently ended up being the only way out.