This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day.

Daisy Miller, a naive young American woman traveling in Europe with her family, finds it difficult to understand Europen society

We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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.

Daisy Miller is the story of a young woman from New York's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences.

Frederick visits her during this sickness until she dies. This narrative outlines the conflict between artifice and infatuation. This is one of Henry James most succinct and direct accounts of the interplay between social standings.

Daisy Miller: A Study In Two Parts This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.

This is one of three new volumes of James's greatest tales in Penguin Classics, and is accompanied by The Aspern Papers and Other Tales and The Turn of the Screw and Other Tales (forthcoming).