Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions?

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York City. The son of a prominent theologian and philosopher, the young James's intellectual upbringing enabled him to travel widely, studying in New York, London, Paris, Bologna and Geneva. He briefly attended Harvard Law School in 1862 before choosing to dedicate himself instead to writing and literary criticism, with his first short story, A Tragedy of Error, published at the age of twenty-one. Well acquainted with Europe, he moved more permanently to England, living in London and later Sussex. A prominent literary figure and noted socialite, he admitted to having accepted 107 invitations in the winter of 1878-9 alone. James became a British citizen in 1915, received the Order of Merit in 1916, and died that year at the age of seventy-two.

Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove are also published in the Penguin English Library.

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ISBN 13	9780141199757
ISBN 10	014119975X
Title	Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw
Author	Henry James
Series	The Penguin English Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2012-08-30
Number of pages	224
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