* Grab your current book or recent read.
* Share a few "teaser" sentences from somewhere in the book.
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!
This week’s teaser is from Daisy Miller, a classic novella by Henry James. A fairly quick read, which I enjoyed!
Miss Daisy Miller looked extremely innocent. Some people had told him that, after all, American girls were exceedingly innocent; and others had told him that, after all, they were not.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
For lucidity and compactness of style, James’s short novels, or novellas, are shining examples of his genius. Few other writings of the century have so captured the American imagination. When Daisy Miller, the tale of the girl from Schenectady, first appeared in 1878, it was an extraordinary success. James had discovered nothing less than “the American girl”—free-spirited, flirtatious, an innocent abroad determined to defy European convention even if it meant scandal . . . or tragedy.
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