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  • She thus joined his cousin Minny Temple (whose aura led him to "Daisy Miller," Isabel Archer in

    Powell's Books: Overview 2009

  • Godard turned the classic trope of the innocent American girl abroad -- see Daisy Miller -- on its head.

    Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: The Enduring Magic of Breathless 2010

  • The picture, if made, would be a kind of reverse Daisy Miller, in which old Europe is destroyed by young America.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Daisy Miller did not exactly rock the box offices of the world, but it did respectably, and was, in my opinion, respectable as a film.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • It was Alice Bartlett who told James the story on which he based Daisy Miller.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • Besides, my old friend from Daisy Miller, Frank Marshall, was then, with his soon-to-be wife, Kathleen Kennedy, more or less managing Amblin while Steven Spielberg was away making movies.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • At first he chose films that would elevate Cybill to stardom: Daisy Miller from the well-known—one can almost say “signature”—Henry James story, Daisy Miller.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Of course, the very precocious little girls of whom James claimed to be weary are the heroines of many of his own novels: Daisy Miller in Daisy Miller, Isabel Archer in Portrait of a Lady, and Verena Tarrant in The Bostonians.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • I find myself in the very weird position of having read two classics out of my first three books of the 2009 Wizard of Oz and Daisy Miller.

    Weekly Geeks....The Classics Edition Stephanie 2009

  • In Daisy Miller published six years before Huck, Winterbourne tries to warn Daisy about flirting with Giovanelli: When you deal with natives you must go by the custom of the place.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

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