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Title: Daisy Miller by Henry James ISBN: 0-486-28773-4 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 03 October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 (33 reviews)
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.
Rating: 3
Summary: Review on Daisy Miller
Comment: In the novel "Daisy Miller", Henry James shows the readers how Daisy, a young American girl, lives outside the social guidelines of the upper class in the 1800's. Daisy travels through in Europe with her family when she meets an American man, Winterbourne. They had known each other for only four days when Daisy asked Winterbourne to come visit her in Italy, however, when he does, her friendship with a young Italian, Mr. Giovanelli, made Winterbourne realize that she was a "flirt." Daisy Miller does not have a father and I believe that she craves for attention from men, and her manipulation of men is one of the themes of the novel.
The author shows an interesting side of the characters and how they think about each other. The climax of this story was not what I had thought it would be and it was hard to notice. This novel was interesting however because it shows how people may think in one way, but act in another at times. I think that Henry James expressed the character's feeling well even though this novel was written in the third-person point of view.
Rating: 3
Summary: does not convey the true meaning
Comment: I read this book without thinking too much its meaning. To me, it merely shows the culural clash of personalities between naive Americans and pensive Europeans at around the time of the First World War. As Barbara Tuchman indicated in 'The Proud Tower', it was a time of rapid and unbelievable changes.
Later I read that the personality of Daisy Miller reflected that of President Woodrow Wilson who failed miserably in his attempts to build the League of Nations and to make the world safe for democracy. I am afraid that reading the book did not covey this to me .
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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0684801523 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Washington Square by Cynthia Ozick, Henry James ISBN: 0375761225 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ISBN: 0679723161 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ISBN: 0684800713 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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