The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth

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In The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth, Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker chart the history of beaches from the time of their formation to the present, examining the shifting significance of beaches to Western cultures through the centuries. Lencek and Bosker are capable historians whose love of beaches shines through in their writing. They assert that the way people approach the beach reflects their culture's current beliefs about sexuality, class divisions, aesthetics, and leisure. At times, the authors go a bit overboard in proving how important beaches are to society, but it is easy to forgive them because this book is crammed with interesting tidbits and choice sentences, such as, "The sands of Oregon's Florence Beach squeak with the high-pitched bark of distant chihuahuas." Great old movie posters, photographs, and odd tourist brochures are sprinkled throughout the book, enlivening the text.

After a chapter on the geological makeup of sand and beaches, the authors chronicle the waxing and waning popularity of beaches through the ages. It seems that people did not always think of the beach as a good place to kick back, get a tan, and leaf through a book with lots of pictures. During the Middle Ages, many Europeans avoided the ocean in part because they believed water was connected to the horrible plagues that occasionally devastated the region. Later, an entrepreneur convinced the British upper class that drinking saltwater was a good way to cure "windiness of the spirit" and other ailments. Gradually, the rich figured out that the beach is not only healthful, it's fun! Technological innovations made it easier to get to the beach, and so more people of all classes went there. Swimsuit styles changed as textiles, sexual mores, and ideals of beauty evolved. This book should appeal to many readers because it is packed with good tidbits to ponder between naps on the beach, things such as the origins of suntan lotion, the development of the Australian crawl, and the singing dunes of Kauai, Hawaii. --Jill Marquis

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An absorbing, original account of the beach--its history, customs, spectacles, and how it became the undisputed Nirvana for pleasure seekers.

Turquoise water, pillowy sand, and a warm, salty breeze--today the beach is regarded as the best possible place to restore body and soul. However, this has not always been the case. In other centuries the beach was considered a remote, terrifying wasteland on the margins of civilization. In their entertaining, elegant, and illuminating account, Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker trace the four-billion-year evolution of the place where land, water, and humans meet.

Embedded in the narrative are the histories of sexuality, health, fashion, sport, the rise of the great resorts--St. Tropez, Catalina, Newport, Miami Beach--and the beach tales of Columbus, D-Day troops, and castaways Cook, Melville, and Swinburne. Including a marvelous selection of images evoking the beach's hypnotic appeal--Impressionist paintings, archival photographs, advertising art, and postcards--and an Appendix of the world's most beautiful, unspoiled beaches, The Beach will fascinate any reader from Coney Island to Bora Bora.

"Engagingly eccentric [and] briskly good-humored ... [an] entertaining, handsomely illustrated book." --The New York Times Book Review (front page)

"The perfect beach book, any time of the year." --Chicago Tribune

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First Do Your Homework.......2007-10-15

The authors love their work! That is, they love the beach. They want to cover the topic completely so they start at the beginning, at the birth of the oceans. Their scenario for the formation of the world ocean is that the water originated in the planet's interior. I think that today's idea is that the water is mostly extra-terrestrial, and came with comets etc. Once the surface cooled below 374K, liquid water precipitated out and accumulated.

They speculate on early man's being dazzled and terrified by the beach, yet in the next paragraph they have men venturing out to sea for various reasons. Evidently they were able to bypass the beach in this enterprise.

They have the odd idea that it is warm at the equator because "...the earth lies closer to the sun..."

The biggest howler is their discussion of meteorology and the Atacama Desert in Chile. I am a meteorologist. I happen to have spent four months in Coquimbo on a field project, and I can tell you that their ideas on why this desert exists next to the ocean are nonsense. The facts are simple -- the air is descending here. It is part of the descending branch of a Hadley Cell which is a semi-permanent planetary-scale circulation feature. Descending air compresses, warms and dries. This occurs above the surface-based mixed layer or marine layer. The shallow mixed layer easily saturates over the ocean and forms extensive stratus clouds or fog, just like it does off California. This cool stable air comes ashore, warms and mixes out; the fog/stratus dissipates yielding sunny skies. There are places where it has not rained in a thousand years, it is so stable.

When I got this far, I quit. What I wanted was a discussion of the geophysical features of beaches, something to go along with Waves and Beaches, and maybe some cultural considerations.

Read this if you want a completely subjective personal reminiscence. Otherwise, forget it.

Too bad.

lost in san francisco.......2000-12-31

Why, oh, why do swimmers get "lost" writing about San Francisco? Answer: ? Lencek and Bosker have 11 1/2 pages of bibliography, (including "Haunts of the Black Masseur:The Swimmer as Hero" by Charles Sprawson,published in 1992.) While Sprawson's book focuses on the swimmer through history, and thus touches on PLACES where the swimmers swim, Lencek and Bosker (hererafter "LB") focus on the beaches through history and thus touch on the same beaches and places that Sprawson visits,or in some cases writes about without having visited (his first edition was published in Great Britain)and while Jack London gets ample admiration, the book has a world-wide approach to swimming through the ages---Byronic,English,German,Japanese,American periods are among those explored via word and art.) They may have walked through San Francisco together to reach the Sutro Baths(or never seen them), but they all got lost before placing Fleishhacker Swim Pool on the wrong side of San Francisco Bay. Sprawson:"The great Sutro Baths of San Francisco were founded in 1896 by an engineer who had made his fortune from devising a tunnel to drain the flooded shafts of the silver mines in Nevada.Sutro then turned his aquatic genius to designing the most remarkable pool ever built." LB:"An engineer who had grown wealthy by devising a tunnel for draining the flooded shafts of Nevada silver mines gave San Francisco the equivalent of Mediterranean bathing in oceanside swimming pools.In 1896 he opened Sutro Baths, a remarkable complex situated high above the Pacific. Sprawson:The railway company ran two lines directly to its entrance, from where stairs descended to what was the largest glass-roofed building in existence,situated high above the Pacific,full of palm trees that stretched up to its ceiling, stuffed anacondas, a Tropic beach, restaurants, and in the main amphitheatre, seven separate swimming pools overlooking the ocean. LB:In the main amphitheater, seven swimming pools, holding two million gallons of seawater and ranging in temperature from icy to warm, overlooked the ocean. Sprawson:Their temperature varied from ice-cold to warm. They held two million gallons of sea water, and could accommodate ten thousand bathers at a time,who could vary their swimming with swinging from the rings and trapezes, or diving off the nine springboards and several high platforms. LB:At any one time, ten thousand bathers swam, swung from the rings and trapezes, and dived from the springboards and platforms. BUT SPRAWSON AND LB somehow misplace the Fleishhaker swimming pool, which they call "the Fleishhaker." The pool,no longer in existence, was south of Sutro Baths, along the Pacific, yet Sprawson (writing from Britain, perhaps) writes: "On the other side of the Bay was the largest open-air pool in the world,the Fleishhaker, that resembled a lake with an Italian Renmaissance changing room stretching almost its entire length."Well, it was a thousand feet long and lifeguards had a rowboat or two among their patrol tools, but despite its size, it resembled a large swimming pool, not a lake. LB:"Across San Francisco Bay (NO,NO,NO) was the Fleishhacker,another gargantuan swimming facility. Its Italian Renaissance changing rooms were the height of elegance (NO, not by the 50's or 60's, anyhow). Sprawson:But the water was never warm, and divers were put off by the perpetual mist that hovered over its surface..." LB:"The size was something of a liability,however:the temperature of the water was always on the cold side, and a constant fog hovered over the swimmers." Both neglected to note that the water was "on the cold side" because it was pumped directly from the Pacific Ocean less than a quarter mile away. AND IT WASN'T 'ACROSS THE BAY.' It was next to the ocean, and on the same "side of the bay" as Sutros. That said, hey, if you like the beach, add it to your collection. And if you like the beach, you probably like the water, too, and in that case, bette add Sprawson's book to your collection too. His cover, swimmer "Houlgate" sitting on the wet sand, 1919 by Jacques_henri Lartigue, is enough reason to get the book...plus a wonderful selection of classic and modern artwork depicting the world of the swimmer. No maps of "the Fleishhaker."

A good 'beach book' on the beach.......2000-12-03

Lencek and Bosker describe themselves as specialists in popular culture and that they are. Their book on the history of the beach should be properly be described as history lite.

The central theme of the work is what people have and are doing on it and in it, what do they wear to the beach and not wear to it, etc. In short this is a social history of the beach with only passing references to its many other aspects such as geology, economics, politics, history, ecology, etc.

The book also looks at the beach at length only in the U.S., the U.K. and on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. The social history of the beach in the rest of the world, were in fact most beaches are located, is never discussed other than in passing.

For those going to the beach with time to spend reading this is a fine book. For those looking for serious history you may wish to look elsewere.

The best history of the evolution of beach vacations!.......2000-04-21

I finally found a book that takes the reader through the history of society's love for the beach! It is a wonderfully light and easy read that reveals tons of interesting information about beach going. As a sand dune ecologist, I was very impressed with the representation of the present problems facing beach development. The historical trace enables the reader to understand why we keep pouring money into a disappearing shoreline!

As beach reading, it's OK.......1998-09-20

As a lifelong beach-lover, I picked this book up just before leaving on vacation to -- you guessed it -- the beach. I read it while sitting -- right again -- on the beach. Unfortunately, neither the book nor the vacation were especially enjoyable and I left it behind -- on the beach. I hope the next person who occupies the beach cottage enjoys the book -- and has a better vacation.

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Trekking Mount Everest Region.......2002-06-25

I was lucky to view this particular book from a local library. I will be fortunate enough to be travelling to Nepal later this year and covering most of the territory described in this particular book. As this will be my second visit to this wonderful country, the scenery and description is very believable and I am very excited about the impending trip. It is good to be travelling with some close friends from our local walking club, and it will be interesting to compare the actual trip with that portrayed in the book.

Trekking in the Everest Region, 5th: includes Kathmandu City Guide (Trekking in the Everest Region)

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Jamie McGuinness
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ASIN: 1873756992

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Fully revised fifth edition of this practical guide with 60 detailed route maps covering not only the classic treks but also the wild routes:
* Everest expedition route
* Rolwaling
* Trekking from Lukla
* Salpa-Arun
* The Gokyo trek
* High passes
* Trekking peaks – including Mera and Island Peak

Information for all budgets and trekking styles
Ranging from lush terraced fields to the highest mountain on earth, the scenery is breath-taking. There are trekking possibilities to suit all budgets – from independent trekkers on a shoestring staying in simple lodges with Sherpa families to travelers on all-inclusive guided treks with every luxury provided.

* Getting to Nepal from Europe, North America and Australasia
* Kathmandu — trekking preparations and what to see
* Where to stay and eat — Kathmandu and along the trails
* Employing a guide or porter in Nepal
* The environment — how to minimize your impact on a fragile region and still take hot ‘green’ showers
* Health and safety
* 60 route maps and village plans
* Plus – 30 color photos

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Self absorbed author.......2006-01-28

For the most part this book is decent. It is made better by the fact that it is almost impossible to get lost on the Everest or Gokyo treks. The author is in love with himself and spends lots of time describing things that have nothing to do with you finding the trail. The maps are hand written and not to scale. If it weren't obvious you might get lost. Unfortunately books like lonely planet focus on all of the Nepal treks and therefore are not as in depth.

Excellent guide for the Everest trek.......2001-07-04

I would agree with all previous reviews that this book is a must-have for all trekkers heading to the Everest region. I used it myself quite extensively on my trek there in May 2001, and it was most useful. The only thing I can add is that not only does it have very detailed maps and practical advice for the trekker, but it is also very compact and leightweight, which is very important if you are going to heights of more than 5,000m! The books' binding is sturdy and paper quite thick, which is good for backpacking (it will not fall apart after a week of trekking). I think this book is the best buy.

Definitively the best book to have on an Everest Trek.......2001-02-22

Before my trip to Nepal I ended up purchasing almost every english book on Nepal I could find. The Bezruchka book is definitely the bible on Nepal but is very large and doesn't have specifics about the Everest region. This book by Jamie Mc Guinness is very up-to-date and has great trail and village maps which are very accurate. There are suggested itineraries which are very nice but the format is easy to follow on the trail in case you decide to go on your own route. The suggested day hikes for acclimitisation days were very good too.

Must have for trekking in the Everest area.......2000-05-06

This book is far better than any of the general trekking in Nepal books if you are heading to the Everest region. The itineraries are great. The maps are very helpful and the directions completely eliminate the need for a guide. If you are planning on heading to the Everest area, this is a must have.

The definitive book on trekking in the Everest region.......1997-08-27

Trekking in the Everest Region is an outstanding guide to the area. It completely obviates the need for a guide on the Everest Base Camp trek. The maps are outstanding, and the itineraries are better than the ones given by Lonely Planet. Can't say enough about it

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Trekking in the Everest Region
Jamie McGuinness
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Conserving Living Natural Resources is an introductory textbook for students of conservation biology and resource management. It presents the historical and conceptual contexts of three seminal approaches to the management of living natural resources: utilitarian management for harvest of featured species and control of unwanted species, protection and restoration of populations and habitats to maintain biodiversity, and management of complex ecosystems to sustain both productivity and biodiversity. Rather than endorsing a single approach as the only correct one, this book investigates the historical and philosophical contexts, conceptual frameworks, principal techniques, and the limitations of each approach.

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She is a genius!.......2002-05-04

This is a most magnificent book! The author obviously is a genius! If you buy only one book in your entire life, buy this one.
This book examines three approaches to resource management, not the usual two. Wow, a lot of work went into this superb book.
I highly recommend it!

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The Theory and Applications of Iteration Methods focuses on an abstract iteration scheme that consists of the recursive application of a point-to-set mapping. Each chapter presents new theoretical results and important applications in engineering, dynamic economic systems, and input-output systems. At the end of each chapter, case studies and numerical examples are presented from different fields of engineering and economics. Following an outline of general iteration schemes, the authors extend the discrete time-scale Liapunov theory to time-dependent, higher order, nonlinear difference equations. The monotone convergence to the solution is examined in and comparison theorems are proven . Results generalize well-known classical theorems, such as the contraction mapping principle, the lemma of Kantorovich, the famous Gronwall lemma, and the stability theorem of Uzawa. The book explores conditions for the convergence of special single- and two-step methods such as Newton's method, modified Newton's method, and Newton-like methods generated by point-to-point mappings in a Banach space setting. Conditions are examined for monotone convergence of Newton's methods and their variants. Students and professionals in engineering, the physical sciences, mathematics, and economics will benefit from the book's detailed examples, step-by-step explanations, and effective organization.

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The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succes de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora,' 'The Patagonia,' and 'Four Meetings'-- it describes a confrontation between
different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity, alarming in her unpredictability, or merely vulnerable in her ignorance of social codes? Hung about with make admirers who seek, uncertainly, to grasp the new phenomenon, Daisy marches on
undiscourageable, to her triumphant--or tragic--destiny.

This volume contains prefaces by Henry James, a chronology of his life, and editor's notes.

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Daisy Miller
Henry James
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Famous novella chronicles a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a narrative rich in psychological and social insight.

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ANNIE P. MILLER.......2007-05-24

A few thoughts and considerations on Daisy Miller: A Study.

Though called 'Daisy', her given name is Annie P. Miller in this short novel from 1878.

A fact seldom mentioned is that Daisy Miller was also written as a play, but due to producers in both New York and London rejecting it, it never made it to the stage. Some of Henry James's other writings, however, did get produced as stage plays.

Daisy Miller sold better than Henry James's "previous books". Was fairly well accepted in America but did stir some controversy.

Though Daisy Miller is a novel, the book has its basis in fact: while in Rome in 1877, Henry James heard a story through gossip of an American girl who had "provoked the general disapproval of Anglo-American society in Rome." From this he developed the short novel, Daisy Miller.

Henry James and his brother, William, had visited the Colosseum one night a few years prior to writing Daisy Miller, and Henry. especially struck by the ruins and "sad beauty" of both the Colosseum and Forum, decided to place Daisy in danger within its location.

The fever spoken of in Daisy Miller was "a rather frequent affliction of that time". Years later Henry James's fellow writer and friend, Edith Wharton, wrote a story entitled "Roman Fever". The malaria or 'fever' did actually exist and Americans were very susceptible to its affects.

Much mention of the words "a study" has been written about here. Henry James chose these words to symbolize as in a pencil drawing, or work of art, attempting to offer a portrait of sorts within the written work. Later between 1907 and 1909, when issuing the 24 volume 'New York Edition' revision of The Novels and Tales of Henry James, Henry James removed "A Study" from the reissued Daisy Miller. He felt it no longer held any significant purpose, yet to this date the words "A Study" is to found as part of the title. Rather strange since "the Master" had requested the words "A Study" be removed in 1909!

In a letter, Henry James called Daisy Miller "the little tragedy of light, thin, natural, unsuspecting, creature being sacrificed as it were to a social rumpus that went quite over her head and to which she stood in no measurable relation". In short, she really never got any of it.

As Leon Edel writes of Daisy: "is she a flirt or is she virtuous. Is she innocent or is she hard and cynical?". As Henry James wrote in a later tale concerning another character, "You admire her-you adore her, and secretly you mistrust her."

Finally, William James, Henry's older brother, objected to the ending of Daisy Miller "which seemed to him frivolous." As Henry James had to do with at least one other tale reaching the stage as a play, the ending had to be rewritten as a happy, rather than a sad one. Should Daisy Miller ever reached the stage as James intended, he might have had to rewrite a much different, happier ending to Daisy Miller.

Daisy Miller is not only the shortest of Henry James's works but it probably is the most frequently read and possibly the most popular. It represents a subject close to Henry James's heart as the flood of millions of Americans poured into Europe got on his nerves to such degree that he eventually refused to revisit Italy, and was caused to move from London due noise, crowds, etc., to reside at Lamb House in Rye. So, in Daisy Miller you not only have a tale of moral expression, you also have James's pet peeve dealing with too many people, too much noise, in one place, too close to him.

But the novel has the kaleoscope ability to be many things to many readers and remains very contemporary in its style of writing down to this day. No small accomplishment after passage of approximately 130 years!

Semper Fi.

Excelent Service.......2007-04-02

Unlike other orders in the past that sometimes had very long and drawn out waiting periods, I received this order promptly and was very satisfied with my purchase.

Daisy is the best of America.......2007-02-24

I recommend Daisy Miller for anyone who's grown tired of American arrogance and exceptionalism, particularly for Americans who have lost sight of what's reasonably lovable in our own culture. This brash and irreverent naif, vacationing in Europe, and her affair with the stodgy and non-committal Winterbourne embodies the best of American innocence and idealism. Daisy remains James' best-loved character, perhaps because we need her so much, to remind us that our uninhibited lack of sophistication is at the heart of our American identity.

Peters out.......2007-01-19

I enjoyed most of this novel while I was reading, and I think that the writing is technically proficient. The end was a great disappointment, and left me wondering why I spend the time reading this mercifully short piece. At least I can say that I've read some of Henry James.

My first problem with the book may be the result of not understanding the time period. I am not certain how Americans expected young women to behave, although I understand that their customs were much less restrictive than Europeans. I therefore don't know whether Daisy is rebellious, or reckless, or simply behaving in a manner that she understands to be suitable and many Europeans (American Euro-wannabees) misinterprete. Is the problem just that Winterbourne and Daisy don't understand each other's cultural assumptions, or that he is really reacting to Daisy's personality? Given the reactions of some of the Europeans, is Winterbourne following their codes of behavior more stringently than they do, perhaps fawning on Europeans by an excessive zeal to prove that he is like them? I am therefore at a loss to understand what point Miller is trying to make. Is the issue really the virtues of one set of social customs over another, or is it just the difficulties that arise from misunderstanding? I give this 3 stars rather than 2 because it might have made sense if I were reading it when it was written.

My other problem may be idiosyncratic: THIS IS A SPOILER. I have little sympathy for anyone foolish enough to "die for love", especially a brief romance. Winterbourne and Daisy obviously aren't suited for each other, and the solution is to move on, not become suicidal. I really don't see their incompatibility as a moral issue on either side. If Winterbourne really can't respect Daisy then he does well not to become seriously involved with her. If he is stuffy and priggish, well, that's how he is and he should choose a compatible wife. When it comes to a serious commitment like marriage, it is necessary to acknowledge how one really is, not delude oneself about how one ought to be.

If James' point, as reviewers seem to indicate, is to expose the difference between European and USA manners, the story is not well-constructed, since Daisy's critics are mostly expat Americans; real Europeans are more tolerant of her. The ending seems a bit bizarre. Such misunderstandings have been the basis of comedies of manners or novels of personal angst, but the ending to this novel is too melodramatic and contrived. In Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, Claudia Johnson has some acerbic things to say about the tradition of killing off women disappointed in love. Does James mean to criticize Winterbourne? It would have been more satisfying (and reasonable) if Winterbourne later realized what a fool he had been when he meets up with the happily married, brilliant hostess Daisy Marriedname, famous beauty and wit, perhaps married to a real European who finds her refreshing.

Sad story by early James.......2006-07-14

This is an early short novel by James, where he begins to work out his obsession for comparing the psyche and the ethos of Americans and Europeans of his time. The singular thing about this one is that here the roles are inverted. Whereas in the rest of his work about this subject (which makes up the majority of his whole body of work) James contrasts the American innocence and puritanism with the Europeans' perversity and worldliness, here it is the expatriate Americans and rich Europeans, in Vevey and Rome, who are scandalized by the extroverted, sexually liberated and outrageous behavior of Daisy Miller, a young and beautiful girl whose independent and candid personality is interpreted by "society" as licentious and indecent, up until the sad end.

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Daisy Miller and Other Stories

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Daisy Miller and Other Stories

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DAISY MILLER AND OTHER STORIES.
Henry. James
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Daisy Miller: A Dark Comedy of Manners (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

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Daniel Mark Fogel
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Henry James's Daisy Miller, the Turn of the Screw, and Other Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

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Henry James's Daisy Miller, the Turn of the Screw, and Other Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

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Some critics go so far as to call Henry James the American writer. Examine ?Daisy Miller,? The Turn of the Screw, ?The Jolly Corner,? and other works by James. The text includes essays from some of the best James critics along with a chronology of the author?s life.

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Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw may be Henry James’s most widely read tales. Certainly, these swiftly moving accounts of failed connections areamong the best examples of his shorter fiction. One represents the international theme that made him famous; the other exemplifies the multiple meanings that make him modern. The introduction to this volume locates his fiction in the context of the family that conditioned his concern with thesexual politics of intimate experience. In the four essays that follow, Kenneth Graham offers a close reading of Daisy with an emphasis on Daisy; Robert Weisbuch examines Winterbourne as a specimen of James’s formidable bachelor type; Millicent Bell places the ghost story governess in the traditions of English fiction and society; David McWhirter then provides a critique of female authority. Deftly summarizing earlier criticism, these essays demonstrate thecontinuing appeal of Henry James in our time.

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DAISY MILLER AND OTHER STORIES
Henry James
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Daisy Miller and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

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Daisy Miller and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry James
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