Daisy Miller

Henry James

Publié par 10/18

279 pages

Résumé

Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller “lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.”

Les Bostoniennes

In extremis

Le dernier des Valerii ; the last of the Valerii

Histoires de fantômes

Un portrait de femme

La Madone du futur

Le tour d'écrou

Le Tour d'écrou

Critiques