What Maisie Knew: and The Pupil (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

James, Henry

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9780099511946: What Maisie Knew: and The Pupil (Vintage Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0099511940 ISBN 13: 9780099511946

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2007

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Caught in the crossfire of her parents' acrimonious divorce, witness to their battles, intrigues and affairs, neglected and exploited, Maisie is a child who knows too much about the world of adults. James's portrait of a little girl who maintains her goodness and dignity in the face of the bitterness and profligacy of her warring parents is both thought-provoking and inspiring.

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Title: What Maisie Knew <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: James, Henry, Jr. <>Publisher: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS

Review:

"James' finest working of his preoccupation with the theme of innocence corrupted... James is the master of making what is not said the most important thing on the page" (Kate Atkinson)

"A brilliant social comedy seen wholly from a child’s point of view, this is a dazzling technical feat that, as always with James, deepens as it develops ― like the life of the child herself. An exhilarating prelude to the great novels of his famous late phase" (Alan Hollinghurst New York Times)

"Contains some of his best comedy and some of his most melancholy insights...embodies everything that James excelled at in fiction" (Paul Theroux)

"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry" (Graham Greene)

"Perfect" (F. R. Leavis)

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