Resultados para "Henry Miller" en Histórico

The innocent and insolent Daisy confronts the traditions of old Europe and confounds all of the people (especially the men) who surround her. All throughout the story, there are classic Jamesian views on the differences between English and American societies.

Daisy Miller is a beautiful and flirtatious rich young American visiting a Swiss spa. There she meets upper class expatriate American, Frederick Winterbourne, who is warned about her reckless ways with men by his aunt. Their relationship and Daisy's with the Italian lawyer Mr. Giovanelli leads to a climactic scene in the Coliseum in Rome, followed by tragedy and regret.

“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…”—Leslie Fiedler When Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the newly rich Miller family...

Henry James' signature theme - the American abroad - centers here on a chatterbox, provincial (not to say ignorant) daughter of a wealthy Schenectady industrialist, as she travels through Europe with her doting, vapid mother and rambunctious young brother. She meets up with one Mr. Winterbourne, another ex-patriate, with whom she flirts before coming to a sad end.

Lexie und River – die Geschichte der beiden beginnt irgendwo im Nirgendwo von Tennessee. In einem heißen Sommer geht Lexies Schulzeit allmählich zu Ende. Als wäre das nicht aufregend genug, tritt auch noch River in ihr Leben – und verändert damit alles. Von nun an ist er immer an ihrer Seite: bester Freund, Musiker und Retter in wirklich jeder Not. Nächster Halt ist ein Studium in Kalifornien: Aus Träumen werden Pläne und gemeinsam machen sich Lexie und River auf den Weg in die große, weite Welt. Doch wie sieht eine Zukunft aus, wenn man alles füreinander, aber nur als Freunde verbunden ist?