What Maisie Knew by Henry James - ISBN: 9780141441375
Paperback
Innocence lost: A child navigates the treacherous adult world of divorce.

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    15 October 2010

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Summary

A new edition of this classic James novel, edited and introduced by Christopher Ricks.

After her parents’ bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie—solitary, observant, and wise beyond her years—is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future.

What Maisie Kne…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141441375
ISBN-10:0141441372
Author:Henry James, Sir Christopher Ricks
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:15 October 2010
Weight:94g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 21mm
Series:Penguin Classics
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Critics Review

“Reading Henry James is like putting a new faculty to the test. This is the true morality.”– Anita Brookner

“Reading Henry James is like putting a new faculty to the test. This is the true morality.”—Anita Brookner

About The Author

Henry James

Christopher Ricks is Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, where he has taught since 1986, and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute. He was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He has written books on Milton, Tennyson, Keats, Eliot, Beckett and Bob Dylan, and he has edited the poems of Tennyson, the early uncollected poems of Eliot, the selected poems of James Henry, and the poems of Samuel Menashe, as well as two anthologies.

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