What Maisie Knew
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the centre of Henry James's masterful 1897 novel stands Maisie Farange, a young girl caught in the crossfire of her parents' acrimonious divorce and the parade of lovers and stepparents that follows — a world of adult duplicity rendered entirely through the innocent, uncomprehending gaze of a child. With piercing psychological acuity, James chronicles Maisie's precarious journey through London and Boulogne, as she becomes an unwitting pawn in the machinations of the selfish, glamorous adults who orbit her life, each using her for their own ends while she, in turn, quietly absorbs far more than anyone suspects. James constructs this novel with the architectural precision of a playwright and the moral seriousness of a philosopher, employing his signature late-style prose — dense, circuitous, and richly nuanced — to present a devastating critique of Victorian marriage, class, and the casual cruelty adults inflict upon children in the name of propriety. What Maisie Knew stands as one of the great experiments in point-of-view narration in the English literary canon, a work that rewards the patient reader with one of literature's most haunting and quietly subversive questions: just how much does Maisie truly know?
Author: Henry James
Format: Paperback
Published: 1966, Penguin Modern Classics
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the centre of Henry James's masterful 1897 novel stands Maisie Farange, a young girl caught in the crossfire of her parents' acrimonious divorce and the parade of lovers and stepparents that follows — a world of adult duplicity rendered entirely through the innocent, uncomprehending gaze of a child. With piercing psychological acuity, James chronicles Maisie's precarious journey through London and Boulogne, as she becomes an unwitting pawn in the machinations of the selfish, glamorous adults who orbit her life, each using her for their own ends while she, in turn, quietly absorbs far more than anyone suspects. James constructs this novel with the architectural precision of a playwright and the moral seriousness of a philosopher, employing his signature late-style prose — dense, circuitous, and richly nuanced — to present a devastating critique of Victorian marriage, class, and the casual cruelty adults inflict upon children in the name of propriety. What Maisie Knew stands as one of the great experiments in point-of-view narration in the English literary canon, a work that rewards the patient reader with one of literature's most haunting and quietly subversive questions: just how much does Maisie truly know?