What Maisie knew
by Henry James
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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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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 literaturePeople
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What Maisie Knew (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
October 5, 2000, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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in English
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What Maisie Knew (Oxford World's Classics)
May 29, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
0192835912 9780192835918
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Originally published: Chicago : H.S. Stone, 1897.
"This Dover edition, first published in 2010, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by H.S. Stone, Chicago, in 1897. The original preface by Henry James has been included in this edition"--T.p. verso.
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