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| | steelheadsite.com Books : Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics) |
 | | Daisy remains James' best-loved character, perhaps because we need her so much, to remind us that our uninhibited lack of sophistication... |
 | | One of Henry James's earliest novellas, Daisy Miller (1878) follows the activities of a wealthy, and brashly confident, young American woman as she audaciously challenges European society in Vevey, Switzerland, and in Rome, having fun, doing what pleases her, and leaving staid European society gasping in her wake. |
 | | Daisy Miller, whose father is in the US and whose mother is her ineffectual "chaperone," is a free spirit in a society bound by unstated but rigid "rules," determined to do whatever she wants,... |
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