"Daisy Miller," or "It's All About Me"

One can wonder, when reading classic fiction, how relevant a work is to contemporary life.

Henry James, an American author who lived and worked mostly abroad, wrote the novella "Daisy Miller" in 1877-78. Highly controversial in America, where many readers were scandalized by his description of the behavior in Europe of a young American girl coming of age, the story, more than anything he had previously written, put him on the literary map.