A unique edition of James's two complementary tales, 'Daisy Miller' and 'An International Episode', in which the young American girl irrupts into European society. This edition includes introduction and notes by Adrian Poole, and an Appendix on stage and screen versions of 'Daisy Miller'.

• Introduction


• Note on the Texts


• Select Bibliography


• Chronology


• 'Daisy Miller'


• 'An International Episode'


• Appendix 1: extracts from James's Prefaces for the New York Edition


• Appendix 2: stage and film versions of 'Daisy Miller'


• Appendix 3: variant readings


• Explanatory Notes

Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, Washington Square, and The Aspern Papers and Other Stories for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical (2005).