Daisy Miller (Italian Edition)

Youth is all about trying to discover who we are. In addition, when one is young, everything can feel like a discovery. If one wants to write a novel that comments on society, a young woman always makes for a good protagonist. Because society is especially diligent when it comes to paying attention to young ladies. This attention is not always a positive one, indeed, our society can be quite judgemental when it comes to young women. The relationship between our social and individual identity is always an interesting subject.

Henry James excels at portraying the society and emphasizing the social pressure on individual. In this novel James compares and contrasts American and European society on more levels than one. The novel opens up in Switzerland with Daisy meeting a fellow American Fredrick, who falls in love with her shortly. Daisy is not approved of by his aunt. Fredrick seems to be uncertain of his views of Daisy, but remains attracted to her. They socialize and spend some time together, but eventually Fredrick has to leave Daisy who invites him to visit her in Rome.

They do meet in Rome, but there Daisy has made a new friend, a young Italian man nobody seems to approve of. I would lie if I said that I cared deeply about what happened to Daisy. I cared, but not that much, it was more a feeling of detachment than indifference. Was Daisy provocative or was she just stubborn? Was she daring or was she just a flirt?

Perhaps this decision only makes sense considering the length and the organization of the book. Speaking of the plot and the narrative, the ending was somewhat abrupt, but perhaps only more powerful because of that. James' prose flows as beautifully as ever. His sentences are elegant and well crafted, his social observations clever and to the point.

Quite frankly, for me it is. This novella was a wonderful read. It lacked the depth and the complexity of A Portrait Of a lady, but it makes for a lovely read. The story is somewhat predictable, yet by the time I finished reading this novella, I was glad I read it. It sure wasn't a wasted effort. Daisy Miller was easy to read, an enjoyable book with enough food for the thought. I would recommend it to all fans of Henry James as well as those who want to read more of him but lack the time or the motivation to tackle his longer works.

How to make this book better: Winterbourne meets Daisy Miller and decides he does not like her. View all 11 comments. Jul 12, Yulia rated it liked it. But if you'd ask me now about the inimitable Daisy, I would demur.

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She's a little too coy and flirtatious for me. In fact, I find Henry James just a little too annoyingly clever in this novella. Or was it cleverly annoying? I couldn't make up my mind whether it was his cleverness that annoyed me more I once revelled in the melodrama of it all. Now, I look at it and see only an artist's sketch of a later masterpiece.

This, to me, is James-The-Apprentice, working out his angst on the then-modern-woman; working out his feelings on the sensibility split between European and American ideals; working it all out, in fact, like a young artist with his first set of coloured pencils: The brickbat that came sailing through the window at one point made me realize the heavy-handedness of the youngish artist that I had not noticed before. Ostensibly describing Daisy, he is of course reflecting on America itself in the following passage: Winterbourne wondered how she felt about all the cold shoulders that were turned toward her, and sometimes it annoyed him to suspect that she did not feel it at all.

He said to himself that she was too light and childish, too uncultivated and unreasoning, too provincial, to have reflected upon her ostracism, or even to have perceived it. The at other moments he believed she carried about in her elegant and irresponsible little organism a defiant, passionate, perfectly observant consciousness of the impression she produced. He asked himself whether Daisy's defiance came from the consciousness of innocence, or from her being, essentially, a young person of the reckless class. It must be admitted that holding one's self to a belief in Daisy's "innocence" came to seem to Winterbourne more and more a matter of fine-spun gallantry.

As I have already had occasion to relate, he was angry at finding himself reduced to chopping logic about this young lady; he was vexed at this want of instinctive certitude as to how far her eccentricities were generic, national, and how far they were personal. And then it seems all a bit ho hum, because I ask myself As I make my way through James's oeuvre once again, I'm finding a lot of these artist's sketches, in fact, and I'm surprised that I didn't pay attention to them in quite the same way the first time 'round.

The grand master is a bit tarnished in my eyes, of late, not so much because his major works don't deserve great merit -- but that all the minor works are Too much has been made of them, unreasonably. There's too much of working, and reworking, the same theme, with the same characters. They come to me now as cardboard cutouts -- paper dolls -- where one simply adorns the characters with new outfits and a new European city but they live the same lives as their predecessors, agonize over the same things in the old familiar way, and often come to the same resolution in exactly the same way.

James's characters have become a bit of a blur in my mind, in the way that Dickens's, or Hardy's, or Eliot's do not. While each writer, admittedly, works on familiar, comfortable themes repeatedly, their characters are uniquely memorable in all their works. With James, I'm finding that only his major works "work" for me.

And so, the halo is tarnished, after all. Tarnished, to match his feet of clay? I blush at my own obtuseness at times. I am impressed by your complete analysis and a little bit sad to see that our perception seems to change so much over time. I must have read Daisy a long time ago and don't know how I wo I suppose as we grow older, and our own lives are coloured by our experiences, someone like Daisy pales; but I've also changed my mind on other books, wherein I loved them more the second and third time around.

Funny old brains that we have: Apr 05, James rated it it was amazing Shelves: I loved this book, in less than 90 pages, a wonderfully understated tragedy unfolds, society is judged and found wanting in a way that resonates today. In Daisy Miller, a young woman has her every move dissected by a hovering society unwilling to ascribe anything but the most base of motives to behavior that falls out of their norms. The norms defined by the late 19th century may seem ridiculously stifling to our modern eye, but I would argue that these norms have been eased, replaced but not re I loved this book, in less than 90 pages, a wonderfully understated tragedy unfolds, society is judged and found wanting in a way that resonates today.

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The norms defined by the late 19th century may seem ridiculously stifling to our modern eye, but I would argue that these norms have been eased, replaced but not removed, particularly if you are a young woman. Reading the other reviews my reaction seems to be a highly individual interpretation. In particular, the lack of consensus on Daisy Miller as a hero of her time, and not some flibbigibbert seemed really odd to me.

As a teenager I once tried to read a Henry James only to be driven off by the dryness and verbosity. I also was further discouraged by his preface to the book which is written with a rather glorious use of synonyms and a word count that seemed to bode ill. While it's not quite as catchy as Cyndi Lauper's girls just wanna have fun, the dry understated style adds tremendously to the story.

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Precisamente es el misterio que envuelve a su encantadora protagonista lo que hace de Daisy Miller un relato tan provocador. I wanted to like this novella more than I did. The writing is lovely but the character of Daisy Miller is so annoying that I wanted to either lecture her or throttle her preferably the latter. She is nothing but a vexing, silly flirt -- she has no redeemable qualities. I plan to read more Henry James novels this year, and I hope I won't have such a negative reaction to his other female characters. Una civetta o una ragazza per bene? E' poco seria o anticonformista?

Zoccola si direbbe oggi o semplicemente libera e emancipata? Cosa significa essere una ragazza per bene? Sfortunatamente i costumi sociali non sono uguali in ogni luogo, in ogni tempo e in ogni cultura e ognuno di noi lo sa bene. Daisy non fa nulla di male. Ma nonostante scorra velocissimo come fosse una storia banale e leggera, ha invece un significato e un razionale importante e molto ben definito. Oggi fortunatamente i costumi sono abbastanza cambiati, anche se ancora troppo spesso sento apostrofare impropriamente come zoccola specie dalle nuove generazioni una donna che si veste in un certo modo o che ha un comportamento critico o spiacevole.

Okay I picked this up because, with only three discs, it was the shortest audiobook I could find at the library and I wanted something brief for a shortened week of commuting. I had never read Daisy Miller, not heard much about it, and I hardly feel much like discussing it now that it's over. It bored the crap out of my kid, which goes to show that none of us have any appreciation for classic literature these days. Reading this felt a lot like being back in high school english class.

The languag Okay I picked this up because, with only three discs, it was the shortest audiobook I could find at the library and I wanted something brief for a shortened week of commuting. The language is simple, so the book is really accessible. This was perfect for an audiobook on my commute. It's easy to get lost in fancy sentence structure when you're dodging semi-trucks on a major interstate in the rain. Daisy Miller is an American tourist, traveling around Europe with her mother and young brother. She is acquainted with several Americans also living in Europe, but her flirtatious manner toward men is totally unbecoming to her social station and reveals her as a terribly uninformed, ignorant American flirt.

She is young and having a good time and behaves irreverently toward the more conservative social conventions. Daisy Miller is something of a spitfire in a totally tedious and ignorant sort of way, defying convention, refusing to cowtow to elitism and perception, and rejecting the idea that she should "behave" in a "ladylike manner," so maybe we could like her for her resilient and resistant spirit, like a zygotic feminist.

I mean, usually I do side with that kind of girl. But Daisy Miller is simpering, manipulative and she whines so much, it was absolutely impossible for me to feel sympathy for her or her bad social graces or her untimely death. She was so very unlikable, as were all of the characters, and at the end of the book I wasn't left with any sort of grand allegorical insght. Dec 15, George K. Mar 20, Dolors rated it liked it Shelves: A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century.

Daisy Miller is not like any other heroine of the time, she speaks her mind, defies the imposed roles of propriety and goes unchaperoned with as many gentlemen as she chooses to. Her transparent ways might have found a true companion in the sophisticated American Mr. Winterbourne, A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century.

Winterbourne, but his classical ways and a social disadjustment prevents them from a happy ending. As usual, Henry James presents his feminine character as a limited creature; innocent, stupid and flirtatious. Her lack of intelligence brings her to a fateful destiny which seems to be exposed as a lesson to be learnt for all of us who belong to the "weaker" sex.

The novel could also be regarded as a cynical account of a decaying society and its hypocritical members. Anyway, I found it preposterous, simple - minded and unidimensional. I don't seem to get into Henry James' style, too misogynist for me! Good quotation from the book Daisy speaking to Winterbourne: Well, we are exclusive, mother and I. We don't speak to everyone - or they don't speak to us. I suppose it's about the same thing. Oct 27, Linda rated it it was ok Shelves: I still don't get it. And I still don't care. This was a weird little book. I don't know what else to say about it.

This book is about Daisy Miller, a young girl from America who is exploring Europe with her mother who seems painfully shy and her completely out-of-control brother. Daisy is a sweet girl, with "grand" idea's and is unconcerned with convention and gossip. She does things frequently that are very inappropriate without seeming to care. She meets a young man Winterbourne who she seems to bewitch from first meeting. And who follo This was a weird little book. And who follows her to Italy when they move on there.

What happens in Italy is both shocking for that time period and really sad. This book ends on a very sad note and really seems odd. I didn't get this book at all and at times I was very annoyed with Daisy and her behaviour. And easy read for Henry James to me, but still was hard going at times for all of Daisy's silliness. Mar 22, Eman Alshareef rated it liked it Shelves: Daisy Miller 1 3 May 28, February - Daisy Miller 3 20 Feb 14, Daisy Miller di Henry James 1 4 Jul 03, He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death.

He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.

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James insisted that writers in Great Britain and America should be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world, as French authors were. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to realistic fiction, and foreshadowed the modernist work of the twentieth century. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel writing, biography, autobiography, and criticism,and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success.

His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales. Books by Henry James. Trivia About Daisy Miller. Quotes from Daisy Miller. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. He altered the tone of the story, and many modern editions Penguin; Broadview prefer to print the original edition, their editors believing that the later edition is a diminution of the original, rather than an improvement. James converted his story into a play that failed to be produced. He published the play in The Atlantic Monthly in , and it showed many changes from the original story.

In particular, a happy ending was inserted to please what James believed to be the preferences of theatre-goers. In the s, a short walking-skirt called the rainy daisy , supposedly named for Daisy Miller, was introduced. Giovanelli, and Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Frederick Raphael wrote the script; the film follows the structure of the original story without significant changes, and even uses portions of James' dialogue from the novel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the novella.

For the film adaptation, see Daisy Miller film. The Modern Language Association of America, , p. James wrote, "Poor little D. Daisy Miller by Henry James". Retrieved 24 December Retrieved 6 June James adapts "Daisy Miller" for the stage. Eager for theatrical success, James adapts "Daisy Miller".

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Despite his new happy ending, New York producers call it "too literary". They "behaved like asses and sharpers combined", said James. Wayne State University Press. Retrieved 7 May Amanda Dalton 31 July Retrieved 4 August Works by Henry James. If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Customers who bought this item also bought.

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It's not a spoiler to say that Daisy Miller is a flirt and "flouts social conventions", but it's remarkable just what causes lips to flap. Walking around outside with a gentleman with no chaperone?