The Real Thing
by Henry James | 
The Beast in the Jungle
by Henry James | 
Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman Melville | 
The Europeans
by Henry James | 
Washington Square
by Henry James | 
The American
by Henry James | 
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
by Stephen Crane | 
The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells | 
The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 
The Pioneers
by James Fenimore Cooper | 
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James | 
The Wings of the Dove
by Henry James | 
The Bostonians
by Henry James | 
The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain | 
The Lesson of the Master
by Henry James | 
The Altar of the Dead
by Henry James | 
The Jolly Corner
by Henry James | 
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton | 
What Maisie Knew
by Henry James |
Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland's Lac Leman, is one of James's most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy's friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller "lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision".