Vintage “Daisy Miller”, by Henry James.

Published for the first time in 1878, this is the Penguin Books version of 1986

“To Winterbourne, the young man who meets her in the garden of a hotel overlooking Lake Geneva and is immediately captivated, Daisy presents an agonizing dilemma. She apparently thinks nothing of 'flirting with any man she could pick up', and although in public Winterbourne defends her as simply 'uncultivated', privately he hesitates. This indecision gives particular edge and poignancy to the novella, in which James portrays the sweetest of all his American princesses. 'Daisy is ... the prototype of all those young American female tourists who continue to baffle their continental lovers,' according to the critic Leslie Fiedler. 'What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does...”

It is 126 pages, 13cm by 20cm, and 9mm wide

Cover and spine in relative good condition, water warping in the pages