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  • Daisy Miller & Washington Square (AmazonClassics Edition)

  • By: Henry James
  • Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
  • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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By: Henry James
Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
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Daisy Miller is a beautiful American girl abroad. Assured, flirtatious, and at odds with reserved European etiquette, she meets two men: Mr. Winterbourne, a world-weary compatriot in full pursuit, and Mr. Giovanelli, a passionate Italian with questionable motives. Unmindful of the scandals she incites and of the risks to her reputation, Daisy believes that she is also impervious to fate.

In Washington Square, New Yorker Catherine Sloper is plain, insecure, and socially awkward. Then handsome Morris Townsend comes into her life with a promise of romance. But Catherine's domineering father trusts that Morris has eyes only for his daughter's inheritance and aims to destroy the courtship - for Catherine's own good.

Each an outsider, each struggling for autonomy in her own way, Daisy Miller and Catherine Sloper embody Henry James's timeless themes of innocence, oppression, and the clash of new-world and old-world ideals.

Revised edition: Previously published as Daisy Miller, this edition of Daisy Miller & Washington Square (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Sad Jane Austen vibes

Nice writing, nice characterisation, not much plot. I read books like this and keep longing for a bomb to go off, literally, or for someone to look out the window and see a dragon flying past, or for Regency Bath or Gilded Age New York to be attacked by aliens, or zombies or time-travelling Babylonians. Stories like this barely deserve to be called novels, in my book. Just--what's the point of even writing *fiction* if everything that happens in your book could plausibly happen in real life? It just seems such a waste of the potential of the medium. After all, the greatest advantage the page has over the screen is there's no limit imposed by budget or technology. The only limit is one's imagination. So it's sad that most writers of literary fiction seem to have so little of it. For so long in our culture there's been a division between books that are well-written and books in which things actually happen. But there's no need for that to be the case at all. Why couldn't someone write a book that has prose as beautiful as this, characterisation as in-depth and compelling, that also has a dramatic plot and fantastical concepts?

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