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Review: Daisy MillerUser Review - Farnoosh Brock - GoodreadsDaisy Miller disappointed on the plot and character, but it surpassed on the writing style and story telling. My first impressions were indeed reflective of my very last ones. Taking place in the ... Read full review Review: Daisy MillerUser Review - Ursula - GoodreadsI finished Daisy Miller in no time at all, since it was only 80-something pages. The ending was not what I expected, although I suspect it's a theme that comes up a lot in Henry James' work. In The ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesafraid agreeable alpenstock American girl answered asked Winterbourne aunt Bayswater beautiful believe Bessie Alden beth better Boston bourne brilliant carriage castle certainly charming Chillon clever Colosseum companion Costello courier course Daisy's dare say deal dear declared dress duchess dyspepsia Engenio England English Eugenio exclaimed eyes felt fond friends gave Geneva gentleman Giova Giovanelli glance going round guess handsome heard Jones's Hotel little American little laugh Littledale London looked Lord Lam lovely mean ment Miss Alden Miss Daisy Miller Miss Miller mother never Newport observed pale Percy Beau Percy Beaumont presently pretty American Randolph rejoined Roman fever Rome Schenectady seemed silent sister smiling spoke stared stay steamer stood suppose sure talk tell terbourne things thought tion told Vevay walk Walker Westgate Westgate's Willie Wood Willie Woodley Winter wondered York young American young Englishmen young girl young lady Popular passagesPage 134 - You were right in that remark that you made last summer. I was booked to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts." Nevertheless, he went back to live at Geneva, whence there continue to come the most contradictory accounts of his motives of sojourn: a report that he is "studying" hard— an intimation that he is much interested in a very clever foreign lady. Page 16 - Winterbourne mentally accused it — very forgivingly — of a want of finish. He thought it very possible that Master Randolph's sister was a coquette ; he was sure she had a spirit of her own ; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation. She told him that they were going to Rome for the winter — she and her mother and Randolph. She asked him if he was a Page 132 - Giovanelli was very pale ; on this occasion he had no flower in his button-hole ; he seemed to wish to say something. At last he said, " She was the most beautiful young lady I ever saw, and the most amiable." And then he added in a moment, " And she was the most innocent. Page 124 - Daisy's behaviour and the riddle had become easy to read. She was a young lady whom a gentleman need no longer be at pains to respect. He stood there looking at her — looking at her companion, and not reflecting that though he saw them vaguely, he himself must have been more brightly visible. Page 11 - I imagine that is your fault, not hers," said Winterbourne. The young lady meanwhile had drawn near. She was dressed in white muslin, with a hundred frills and flounces, and knots of pale-colored ribbon. She was bare-headed; but she balanced in her hand a large parasol, with a deep border of embroidery; and she was strikingly, admirably pretty. "How pretty they are! Page 128 - Daisy, in a little strange tone, " whether I have Roman fever or not!" Upon this the cab-driver cracked his whip, and they rolled away over the desultory patches of the antique pavement. Winterbourne, to do him justice, as it were, mentioned to no one that he had encountered Miss Miller, at midnight, in the Colosseum with a gentleman... Page 22 - I had seventeen dinners given me; and three of them were by gentlemen," added Daisy Miller. "I have more friends in New York than in Schenectady — more gentlemen friends; and more young lady friends too," she resumed in a moment. She paused again for an instant; she was looking at Winterbourne with all her prettiness in her lively eyes and in her light, slightly monotonous smile. "I have always had," she said, "a great deal of gentlemen's society. Page 20 - It might have been said of this unknown young lady, who had come and sat down beside him upon a bench, that she chattered. She was very quiet, she sat in a charming tranquil attitude; but her lips and her eyes were constantly moving. She had a soft, slender, agreeable voice, and her tone was decidedly sociable. Page 46 - Italy. It seems as if there would be so many there," continued Mrs. Miller, with an air of increasing confidence. "Of course we only want to see the principal ones. We visited several in England," she presently added. "Ah yes! in England there are beautiful castles, Page 4 - There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, an echo, of Newport and Saratoga. There is a flitting hither and thither of 'stylish... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarThe Rhetorical Construction of Multilingual StudentsRuth Spack - 1997 - TESOL Quarterly To Be Continued: Double Identity, Multiplicity and Antigenealogy ...Augusta Rohrbach - 1999 - Callaloo " A New Claim for the Family Renown"Elizabeth Duquette 19 世纪美国白人文学经典中的印第安形象邹惠玲 - 2006 - 外国文学研究 References from web pagesDaisy Miller, by Henry James, 1878 Part 1, Ch 1, Daisy Miller, by Henry James, 1878 Daisy Miller by Henry James - Project Gutenberg Daisy Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James, Henry : Daisy Miller: A Study Henry James Daisy Miller Criticism Daisy Miller, by Henry James; Part I Page 1 Free Barron's booknotes for Daisy Miller - A Step Beyond-Free ... Daisy Miller Summary and Analysis ENGL 2200 » Blog Archive » A Contemporary Comparison of Henry ... Bibliographic information
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