title: Best Places to Stay: 44 Extraordinary Hotels
author: Shelley-Maree Cassidy
description: The destinations are ... exquisite, dreamy and high-minded. The photography is good and occasionally spectacular. The writing is detailed and varied. In fact, the book reads like a travelogue of experienced travellers with the talent to find little-known gems. (Joe Paraskevas <i>Winnipeg Free Press</i> 2007-12-09)<br /><br />Sometimes a hotel can be a destination in itself as this lavish 303-page book filled with colour photos illustrates. (Diane Slawych <i>The Toronto Sun</i> 2007-12-19)<br /><br />Eye-catching photography of hotels on six continents -- including a few of our favorites. Seasoned travelers will find few surprises. (Jane Wooldridge <i>Miami Herald-International Edition</i> 2007-12-09)<br /><br />Lavish... an eclectic mix of urban and rural lodgings in 26 countries. (Diane Slawych <i>Toronto Sun</i> 2007-12-19)<br /><br />Sheer fantasy for the ordinary person... These places are the stuff of dreams. (Bill Robertson <i>Star Phoenix (Saskatoon)</i> 2007-12-15)<br /><br />[For] travellers looking for unique inns. (Canwest wire story <i>The Ottawa Citizen</i> 2007-12-15)<br /><br />A bargain ... You're sure to pass many happy holiday hours beside the fire with [this book]. (<i>The Travel Society (Toronto)</i> 2007-11-30)
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
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  Henry James  
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  # Daisy Miller: A Study
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PART I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  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. One of the hotels at Vevey,
  however, is famous, even classical, being d