Showing The Turn of the Screw, and Daisy Miller by Henry James

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-08-30 Pages: 224 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Im a fearful. frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not This edition contains two of Henry Jamess most popular short works.Travelling in Europe with her family. Daisy Miller. an exquisitely beautiful young American woman. presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts. or is she simply ignorant of those conventions In Daisy Miller Henry James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman. a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.Oscar Wilde called Jamess chilling The Turn of the Screw a mos...