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An edition of What Maisie Knew (1897)

What Maisie knew

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In the aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled back and forth between her father and mother, both of them amoral and monstrously self-involved. After her parents find new spouses -- and after the new spouses find themselves drawn to each other, as much for Maisie's sake as their own -- Maisie feels even more misplaced. As she observes the world of adults and their adulteries, and finds herself in the position to decide her own fate, Henry James's rendering of her child's-eye view -- his depiction of what precisely Maisie knows -- draws the reader into this scathing satire of social mores and insightful meditation on familial dependence.

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Penguin Books
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274

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Fiction, Girls, Remarried people, Children of divorced parents, Governesses, Classic Literature, Family life, fiction, Fiction, general, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Divorce, Married people, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, general, Divorced people, fiction, American literature

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What Maisie knew
2013, Clipper Large Print
in English
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What Maisie knew
2013, Penguin Classics
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What Maisie Knew (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
October 5, 2000, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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What Maisie Knew (Oxford World's Classics)
May 29, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
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What Maisie knew
1985, Penguin Books
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What Maisie Knew
1981, Doubleday
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What Maisie knew: In the cage. The pupil
1963, Scribner
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What Maisie knew.
1954, Doubleday
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What Maisie knew.
1897, W. Heinemann
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What Maisie knew
1897, Herbert S. Stone & Co.
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Bibliography: p. 267-274.

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, New York, N.Y., U.S.A
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Penguin classics

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PS2116 .W4 1985, PS2116 .W4 1985, PS2116.W4 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
274 p. ;
Number of pages
274

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OL18342900M
Internet Archive
whatmaisieknew00jame
ISBN 10
0140432485
LCCN
86110186
OCLC/WorldCat
13702719
Library Thing
19973
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392452

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