Daisy Miller an An International Episode (Oxford World’s Classics) - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199639884 ISBN 13: 9780199639885

Verlag: Oxford University Press España, S.A., 2000

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Book by James Henry Poole Adrian

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'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence'

Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the romantic scenery of Lake Geneva and Rome, their lively, precarious relationship develops to a climax in the Colosseum at midnight. The tale gave James his first popular success, yet some compatriots detected treachery in its portrayal of young American womanhood. James responded with 'An International Episode', which exposes a couple of English gentlemen to the charm and wit of American sisters in Newport, RI and then in London. Independently read, these short masterpieces probe the manners and morals of a newly emergent transatlantic world. Together they shed light on each other, demonstrating the range of James's own manners, from sharp satire and buoyant comedy to complex, perhaps even tragic, pathos.
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Biografía del autor:

Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, Washington Square, and The Aspern Papers and Other Stories for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical (2005).

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press España, S.A.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0199639884
• ISBN 13: 9780199639885
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256