Daisy Miller

When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty, but slightly unsettled by her open ways and her flirtatiousness. Undeterred by this and by his aunt`s disapproval, he invites her to join him in a jaunt to a nearby castle, little suspecting that this will set in train a sequence of events that promises to be a source of heartache and disappointment for him, and threatens to compromise his own social acceptability. One of Henry James`s most enduringly popular works, Daisy Miller, here published in its 1909 version, incorporating the author`s final revisions, is a masterly, psychologically nuanced dissection of social mores and a merciless critique of convention and staid respectability.