Daisy Miller And Other Tales

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"If this is improper . . . then I am all improper, and you must give me up' This collection of Henry James's short stories explores the tensions between Europe and America, innocence and experience, the old world and the new. The heroine of 'Daisy Miller' is a young, beautiful American whose uninhibited behaviour provokes scandal among her fellow expatriates in Rome. In 'Madame de Mauves', a joyless marriage between a straight-laced American woman and an adulterous Frenchman leads to tragedy. And in 'Europe', an ailing widow prevents her daughters from escaping New England for a more fulfilling life abroad. Brought together here with further tales of cultural conflict, these stories are subtle, affecting variations on the 'international theme' that would dominate James's novels. Edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Fender General Editor Philip Horne""If this is improper . . . then I am all improper, and you must give me up' This collection of Henry James's short stories explores the tensions between Europe and America, innocence and experience, the old world and the new. The heroine of 'Daisy Miller' is a young, beautiful American whose uninhibited behaviour provokes scandal among her fellow expatriates in Rome. In 'Madame de Mauves', a joyless marriage between a straight-laced American woman and an adulterous Frenchman leads to tragedy. And in 'Europe', an ailing widow prevents her daughters from escaping New England for a more fulfilling life abroad. Brought together here with further tales of cultural conflict, these stories are subtle, affecting variations on the 'international theme' that would dominate James's novels. Edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Fender General Editor Philip Horne"
"Henry James (Author) was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They includeThe Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. Stephen Fender (External Editor) was born in San Francisco and educated between the US and UK. He is currently Visiting Professor at University College London. His most recent books include Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature, co-authored with John Sutherland, and The Great American Speech."