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.
First published in 1897, What Maisie Knew stands as one of Henry James's most technically daring works of psychological fiction. The novel chronicles the turbulent childhood of young Maisie Farange, a girl shuttled between her bitterly divorced parents and their successive new lovers in late Victorian England. James masterfully presents the adult world of moral corruption and sexual intrigue entirely through the limited but perceptive consciousness of a child who understands far more than those around her suspect. Written in James's characteristically intricate and nuanced prose, the novel argues that innocence and experience are not opposites but deeply entangled states, illuminating how society's failures are laid bare through a child's unfiltered gaze. A landmark of late nineteenth-century literature, it anticipates the stream-of-consciousness techniques that would define modernist fiction in the decades to come.
Author: Henry James
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
First published in 1897, What Maisie Knew stands as one of Henry James's most technically daring works of psychological fiction. The novel chronicles the turbulent childhood of young Maisie Farange, a girl shuttled between her bitterly divorced parents and their successive new lovers in late Victorian England. James masterfully presents the adult world of moral corruption and sexual intrigue entirely through the limited but perceptive consciousness of a child who understands far more than those around her suspect. Written in James's characteristically intricate and nuanced prose, the novel argues that innocence and experience are not opposites but deeply entangled states, illuminating how society's failures are laid bare through a child's unfiltered gaze. A landmark of late nineteenth-century literature, it anticipates the stream-of-consciousness techniques that would define modernist fiction in the decades to come.