by Henry James · Documenta Balear S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489067332
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«Daisy Miller» is a novel by Henry James, published by Documenta Balear S.L. in paperback (158 pages, in Catalan).
The story follows young American Daisy Miller during a holiday in Europe and her friendship with the sophisticated Mr. Winterbourne. James portrays the clash between the spontaneity of the New World and the social rigidity of the Old Continent, with reputation, the judgment of others and individual freedom as central themes.
Catalan translation by Joan Antoni Cerrato, published in 1998; the work originally appeared in 1878.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and American fiction, and for those seeking stories of cultural clash and social conventions.
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
