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Title: Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James, Geoffrey Moore
ISBN: 0-14-043262-0
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper)
Pub. Date: March, 1988
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $5.95
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Average Customer Rating: 3.42 (33 reviews)

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Rating: 4
Summary: Suprisingly resonant
Comment: I read this book as part of an English course on late-19th and 20th century American literature. It's the first time I've read a novel by Henry James, having so far only seen the movie adaptations of 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'Washington Square'. Having been wary of reading James (because of his reputation for dense, convoluted prose) I was surprised at this novel's relatively brisk plot and overall readability. The story itself, ostensibly a simple one about one man's inability to understand a seemingly complicated woman, also has interesting things to say about gender, class and the relationship between the United States (personified by the heroine) and the rest of the Western world. I was actually somewhat amazed that the image of America created through the characterization of Daisy Miller still rings true 125 years after this book's publication.

Rating: 5
Summary: Good, quick injection of James
Comment: I hadn't read James for about eight years or so when I came across a copy of Daisy Miller in a pile of discarded books at a local university. It sat on my shelf for a while longer, as I knew full well that James writes in thick sentences, making up for the lack of volume by quite a bit.

What I found was what I have come to expect from James, even in his early works. This book does a great deal in terms of pulling together many levels of interpretaion: Old World versus New World, common versus exclusive, and also the chaser and the chased.

This last viewpoint in particular is what stuck with me. We have a young girl, and a young man. They meet once for a few days, and the young man becomes utterly fixated on her, if for any other reason that she is playing, in his view, hard to get. When she turns her attention elsewhere, the ante is doubled and tripled when, for a variety of reasons most likely centered around our young hero Winterbourne, the American society in Rome starts to give our heroin the "cold shoulder". Given that James writes most often to examine the person most in focus in the novel, I tend to atribute most of the troubles of this young girl to both herself and Winterbourne, not just the society of the time. This is far from a safe academic interpretation, however.

The notes included in the book are helpful for getting into the mindset of the typical reader of James' day, but are not distracting. Overall, this would probably be suitible for an ambitios middle school student, and just right for most high school students.

Rating: 4
Summary: An engaging story.
Comment: "Daisy Miller" is a small classic that loses its risqué themes in today's society. It's an uncomplicated book to read with interesting phrases, which are explained in the back of the novella. Without a lot of detail, one must use their imagination greatly. Nonetheless, it's attention grabbing. I recommend.

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