Daisy Miller

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by Henry James

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This is going to sound really petty, but, is there any way to edit the Goodreads summary, because the last sentence is just awful? It begins with a dangling modifier, and why is he crafting something with a sword? I'm no grammar nazi, but this was distractingly bad.
Nate I thought that was an introductory clause, not a dangling modifier, but I guess I need to brush up on my grammar rules.

Goodreads summaries are normall…moreI thought that was an introductory clause, not a dangling modifier, but I guess I need to brush up on my grammar rules.

Goodreads summaries are normally mass imported from other sources (e.g. Amazon), so they often need manual editing as they can contain all sorts of formatting/spelling/grammar/strange errors. Additionally, summaries can be different for each edition, i.e. ISBN, and with a book like Daisy Miller, you've got over 400 editions, so potentially over 400 summaries—yikes.

In reality, most editions on Goodreads just use the same summary, and only change them if needed (e.g. a different edition may feature an introduction written by someone else). Any regular user can do this, you just need to request to be a librarian; there are no real perks to being one other than you get to fix errors that drive you nuts (my favorite: adding covers).

I'll copy the summary over from the Penguin Classics edition to be the default for this edition, as this one is pretty bad. (My guess is this summary was copied over from a public domain edition that someone self-published on amazon, and therefore, it's that person's writing, not that of a "real" publisher.)(less)
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how old was daisy miller?
Sean eighty nine million
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