# What Maisie Knew - Hardcover

by **Henry James** (Author), **Mint Editions** (Contribution by)

"\[James\] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T. S. Eliot

"Reading Henry James is like putting a new faculty to the test. This is the true morality." -Anita Brookner

"A very modern story about aimless lives and messy marriages"- Paul Theroux

**Henry James' _What Maisie Knew_ (1897) is one of the author's most piercing works of fiction, am impassioned look at the events of a young girls life as she is shuffled between her self-absorbed divorced parents.** In this astonishingly modern novel, the damaging constructs of society and the illusions of respectability are seen through the perspective of an unforgettable child from her earliest years until a teenager.

Maisie Farange, only six-years old at the onset of the novel, is a child of two narcissistic parents: Beale and Ida, who are only using the young child as a pawn in their own egomaniacal games. As the bitter divorce of her parents is settled in split custody, the emotional cruelty only increases. She is cared for by two governesses; the homely Mrs. Wix at her Mother's house, and the beautiful Miss Overmore at her father's home. As each parent re-marries much younger spouses, and those relationship in turn fail, Maisie is entangled in a web of moral corruption and psychological abuse. James's tragic story of an innocent child caught between the corruption of the adult world is a thought-provoking and devastating meditation on failed responsibility.

### Back Jacket

_What Maisie Knew_ (1897), Henry James' heart-breaking novel of a child of divorce is an emotionally riveting portrayal of innocence and betrayal. Set in London at the Fin de siècle, this story of a child thrust into the cruel deceptions of adults is a novel of profound psychological depth.

**Number of Pages:** 234

**Dimensions:** 0.56 x 8 x 5 IN

**Publication Date:** November 17, 2020

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