It is a great pleasure to write the word; but I am not sure there is not a certain impudence in pretending to add anything to it. Venice has been painted and described many thousands of times, and of all the cities of the world is the easiest to visit without going there. Open the first book and you will find a rhapsody about it; step into the first picture-dealer's and you will find three or four high-coloured "views" of it. There is notoriously nothing more to be said on the subject. Every one has been there, and every one has brought back a collection of photographs. There is as little mystery about the Grand Canal as about our local thoroughfare, and the name of St. Mark is as familiar as the postman's ring. It is not forbidden, however, to speak of familiar things, and I hold that for the true Venice-lover Venice is always in order. There is nothing new to be said about her certainly, but the old is better than any novelty. It would be a sad day indeed when there should be something new to say. I write these lines with the full consciousness of having no information whatever to offer. I do not pretend to enlighten the reader; I pretend only to give a fillip to his memory; and I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Henry James' berühmte Erzählung über Zuneigung und Vorurteile. Der Amerikaner Winterbourne trifft in einem Hotel in der Schweiz zum ersten Mal auf die junge Daisy Miller aus New York State. Im Gegensatz zu ihrem kleinen Bruder Randolph, ist Daisy von Europa und der ansässigen High Society begeistert. Sie zieht Winterbourne sofort durch Schönheit und keckes Auftreten in ihren Bann, doch immer wieder verwirrt ihn das auffällige Verhalten der jungen Dame. Nichtsdestotrotz willigt er ein, mit dem bezaubernden Mädchen allein einen Ausflug zu unternehmen. Als er ihr am Ende des Schlossbesuches beichtet, dass er am nächsten Tag abreisen müsse, ist Daisy außer sich und fordert ihren Landsmann auf, sie im kommenden Winter in Rom zu besuchen. Winterbourne willigt ein, doch als er Italien erreicht, muss er erfahren, dass Daisy mittlerweile Bekanntschaft mit einem stattlichen Italiener gemacht hat ... »Ein Leben ohne Henry James ist möglich, aber sinnlos.« DIE ZEIT, 31.07.2014 »Henry James ist fraglos einer der großen Frauen-Romanciers der Weltliteratur.« Falter (A), 13.08.2014

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him. It was this observation that drew from Douglas—not immediately, but later in the evening—a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention. Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I saw he was not following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two nights later; but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out what was in his mind.

Henry James' berühmte Erzählung über Zuneigung und Vorurteile. Der Amerikaner Winterbourne trifft in einem Hotel in der Schweiz zum ersten Mal auf die junge Daisy Miller aus New York State. Im Gegensatz zu ihrem kleinen Bruder Randolph, ist Daisy von Europa und der ansässigen High Society begeistert. Sie zieht Winterbourne sofort durch Schönheit und keckes Auftreten in ihren Bann, doch immer wieder verwirrt ihn das auffällige Verhalten der jungen Dame. Nichtsdestotrotz willigt er ein, mit dem bezaubernden Mädchen allein einen Ausflug zu unternehmen. Als er ihr am Ende des Schlossbesuches beichtet, dass er am nächsten Tag abreisen müsse, ist Daisy außer sich und fordert ihren Landsmann auf, sie im kommenden Winter in Rom zu besuchen. Winterbourne willigt ein, doch als er Italien erreicht, muss er erfahren, dass Daisy mittlerweile Bekanntschaft mit einem stattlichen Italiener gemacht hat ... »Ein Leben ohne Henry James ist möglich, aber sinnlos.« DIE ZEIT, 31.07.2014 »Henry James ist fraglos einer der großen Frauen-Romanciers der Weltliteratur.« Falter (A), 13.08.2014

This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1888 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915. From this point on, he was a hugely prolific author, eventually producing twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories and novellas, as well as literary criticism, plays and travelogues. Amongst James's most famous works are The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), and one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw (1898). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer who traveled Europe for much of his younger life. Born to a wealthy family that emphasized education, James was tutored by teachers from all over Europe during his adolescence and briefly attended Harvard Law School before deciding to concentrate on writing. James is considered one of the key contributors to nineteenth century literary realism, and some of his best known novels include The American, Daisy Miller, and The Portrait of a Lady.

During a portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practised in the city of New York a physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which, in the United States, has always been bestowed upon distinguished members of the medical profession. This profession in America has constantly been held in honour, and more successfully than elsewhere has put forward a claim to the epithet of “liberal.” In a country in which, to play a social part, you must either earn your income or make believe that you earn it, the healing art has appeared in a high degree to combine two recognised sources of credit. It belongs to the realm of the practical, which in the United States is a great recommendation; and it is touched by the light of science—a merit appreciated in a community in which the love of knowledge has not always been accompanied by leisure and opportunity.

Henry James' berühmte Erzählung über Zuneigung und Vorurteile. Der Amerikaner Winterbourne trifft in einem Hotel in der Schweiz zum ersten Mal auf die junge Daisy Miller aus New York State. Im Gegensatz zu ihrem kleinen Bruder Randolph, ist Daisy von Europa und der ansässigen High Society begeistert. Sie zieht Winterbourne sofort durch Schönheit und keckes Auftreten in ihren Bann, doch immer wieder verwirrt ihn das auffällige Verhalten der jungen Dame. Nichtsdestotrotz willigt er ein, mit dem bezaubernden Mädchen allein einen Ausflug zu unternehmen. Als er ihr am Ende des Schlossbesuches beichtet, dass er am nächsten Tag abreisen müsse, ist Daisy außer sich und fordert ihren Landsmann auf, sie im kommenden Winter in Rom zu besuchen. Winterbourne willigt ein, doch als er Italien erreicht, muss er erfahren, dass Daisy mittlerweile Bekanntschaft mit einem stattlichen Italiener gemacht hat ... »Ein Leben ohne Henry James ist möglich, aber sinnlos.« DIE ZEIT, 31.07.2014 »Henry James ist fraglos einer der großen Frauen-Romanciers der Weltliteratur.« Falter (A), 13.08.2014

The litigation seemed interminable and had in fact been complicated; but by the decision on the appeal the judgement of the divorce-court was confirmed as to the assignment of the child. The father, who, though bespattered from head to foot, had made good his case, was, in pursuance of this triumph, appointed to keep her: it was not so much that the mother's character had been more absolutely damaged as that the brilliancy of a lady's complexion (and this lady's, in court, was immensely remarked) might be more regarded as showing the spots. Attached, however, to the second pronouncement was a condition that detracted, for Beale Farange, from its sweetness—an order that he should refund to his late wife the twenty-six hundred pounds put down by her, as it was called, some three years before, in the interest of the child's maintenance and precisely on a proved understanding that he would take no proceedings: a sum of which he had had the administration and of which he could render not the least account. The obligation thus attributed to her adversary was no small balm to Ida's resentment; it drew a part of the sting from her defeat and compelled Mr. Farange perceptibly to lower his crest. He was unable to produce the money or to raise it in any way; so that after a squabble scarcely less public and scarcely more decent than the original shock of battle his only issue from his predicament was a compromise proposed by his legal advisers and finally accepted by hers.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

During a portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practised in the city of New York a physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which, in the United States, has always been bestowed upon distinguished members of the medical profession. This profession in America has constantly been held in honour, and more successfully than elsewhere has put forward a claim to the epithet of “liberal.” In a country in which, to play a social part, you must either earn your income or make believe that you earn it, the healing art has appeared in a high degree to combine two recognised sources of credit. It belongs to the realm of the practical, which in the United States is a great recommendation; and it is touched by the light of science—a merit appreciated in a community in which the love of knowledge has not always been accompanied by leisure and opportunity.

It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering. He had spent five days at Siena, where he had intended to spend but two, and still it was impossible to continue his journey. He was a young man of a contemplative and speculative turn, and this was his first visit to Italy, so that if he dallied by the way he should not be harshly judged. He had a fancy for sketching, and it was on his conscience to take a few pictorial notes. There were two old inns at Siena, both of them very shabby and very dirty. The one at which Longueville had taken up his abode was entered by a dark, pestiferous arch-way, surmounted by a sign which at a distance might have been read by the travellers as the Dantean injunction to renounce all hope. The other was not far off, and the day after his arrival, as he passed it, he saw two ladies going in who evidently belonged to the large fraternity of Anglo-Saxon tourists, and one of whom was young and carried herself very well. Longueville had his share—or more than his share—of gallantry, and this incident awakened a regret.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Product Description: Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year.It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers...read more