Doris Betts Book Club at Pittsboro Presbyterian Church

Last Tuesday of every month at 11 am
Fellowship Hall
Join us for the Doris Betts Book Club meeting for a lively discussion of this month’s book. How does it work? Group members select books, both fiction and nonfiction, with themes and challenges that draw us to consider the role of faith and spirituality in our lives. Didn’t finish the book? (or even read it?!) Come anyway and enjoy the fellowship, conversation and intellectual stimulation. Have a book you’ve read that you’d love to discuss? Come and propose it to the group! We look forward to seeing you there.
April 26, 2022
“Daisy Miller” by Henry James
Led by JoAnne Robb
Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy
Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The
young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of
Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s
friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent
infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian
themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As
Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller “lives on, a figure out of
literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.”