• American Literature
• Short Prose

• Type: Mezzobula
• Length: 100 pages

Daisy Miller is a notable mezzobula by American author, Henry James. - AsNotedIn

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake - a lake that it behooves every tourist to visit. The shore of the lake presents an unbroken array of establishments of this order, of every category, from the grand hotel of the newest fashion, with a chalk-white front, a hundred balconies, and a dozen flags flying from its roof, to the little Swiss pension of an elder day, with its name inscribed in German-looking lettering upon a pink or yellow wall and an awkward summerhouse in the angle of the garden. Henry James, Daisy Miller

People

• Marian Hooper Adams, Marian Adams may have been Henry James' inspiration for Daisy Miller.

Places

• Chateau de Chillon, Veytaux, Veytaux, CH "Have you been to that old castle?" asked the young girl, pointing with her parasol to the far-gleaming walls of the Chateau de Chillon.
• Geneva, Canton Geneva In Geneva, as he had been perfectly aware, a young man was not at liberty to speak to a young unmarried lady except under certain rarely occurring conditions.
• Rome, Lazio Winterbourne, who had returned to Geneva the day after his excursion to Chillon, went to Rome toward the end of January.
• Vevey, CH, Canton Vaud One of the hotels at Vevey, however, is famous, even classical, being distinguished from many of its upstart neighbors by an air both of luxury and of maturity.