At a grand hotel in Vevey on Lake Geneva, the young American Winterbourne meets Daisy Miller of Schenectady, pretty, uninhibited and travelling with a vague mother and a brash little brother. He cannot decide whether she is innocent or reckless, and when they meet again in Rome her disregard for the rules of the American colony there begins to cost her.
The 1878 novella that made James famous and first set out his great theme of Americans in Europe. Download the free EPUB.