Daisy Miller and Other Tales

Description

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines - a young, independent American travelling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to disaster. Her story is here accompanied by six more set among English castles, Swiss hotels and French ports, and all riffing on a classic Jamesian theme- the clash between the old world and new, Europe and America.

Henry James (Author) Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. Stephen Fender (External Editor) Stephen Fender was born in San Francisco and educated between the US and UK. He is currently Visiting Professor at University College London. His most recent books include Love, Sex, Death and Words- Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature, co-authored with John Sutherland, and The Great American Speech.