What Maisie Knew
A Literature, 19th Century, Fiction book. Fear, unfortunately, is a very big thing, and there's a great variety of kinds. Henry...
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. And when both take lovers and remarry, Maisie-solitary, observant and wise beyond her years- is drawn into an entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. Published in 1897 when Henry James was becoming increasingly experimental with narrative technique and fascinated by the idea of the child's-eye view, What Maisie Knew is a subtle, intricate yet devastating portrayal of an innocent adrift in a corrupt society.
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- Pages: 275 pages
- ISBN: 9780140432480 / 140432485
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...there was an extraordinary mute passage between her vision of this vision of his, his vision of her vision, and her vision of his vision of her vision. What there was no record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child's part of an innocence so saturated with knowledge and so directed to diplomacy. Henry Guntrip, What Maisie Knew What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child's part of an innocence so saturated with knowledge and so directed to diplomacy. Henry James, What Maisie Knew Mrs. Wix gave a sidelong look. She still had room for wonder at what Maisie knew. Henry James, What Maisie Knew
During my tenure as a student at the university, I read my fair share of 19th century authors. While the 19th century was not my favorite time periodI took as many medieval literature classes as I could and devoured Viking/Icelandic sagasHenry James was one of the authors that kept reoccurring. Many of my professors liked his work;... Years ago, I read somewhere, perhaps in Graves' Goodbye to All of That, or a biography on Ford Madox Ford, where it was recorded (a tricky word if it's Graves) that Ford, while out in the trenches, read and greatly admired Henry James' What Maisie Knew. What stuck in my mind was the fact that Ford (as I remember it) thought it a great... Anyone.
