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What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible and narcissistic parents.
- Henry James
- 1897
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6,569 ratings781 reviews. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida, and her vain father, Beale, who value her only as a means of provoking one another.
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What Maisie Knew, novel by Henry James, published in 1897. Set mostly in England, the novel is related from the perspective of Maisie, a preadolescent whose parents were divorced when she was six years old and who spends six months of the year with each parent. The only emotional constant in Maisie’s life is Mrs. Wix, a motherly old governess.
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Mar 12, 2003 · Title: What Maisie Knew. Author: Henry James. Release Date: March 12, 2003 [eBook #7118] [Most recently updated and HTML version added: November 9, 2005] Language: English. Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT MAISIE KNEW*** E-text prepared by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Summary. What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James. It was originally published in serial form in American literary magazine The Chap-Book in 1897, and re-released as a revised, abridged novel later that year. The book describes events in the life of Maisie Farange, the child of divorced, frivolous parents, over the course of several years in ...
Aug 26, 2010 · What Maisie Knew. Henry James. Penguin UK, Aug 26, 2010 - Fiction - 352 pages. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother...
