| What Maisie Knew (Wordsworth Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Henry James
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 25796
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1840224126
EAN: 9781840224122
ASIN: 1840224126
Publication Date: August 7, 2002
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Beautiful October 19, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is another classic from the James collection. What Maisie Knew is a masterpiece- the reader has an ant's eye view of the adult world through Maisie's eyes. Essentially we witness the violent pumelling of a young child by her parent's manipulative scheming; she is used throughout as a go-between and epitomises,sadly, the position many children find themselves in when a divorce is handled terribly by parents. Maisie becomes intertwined in an adult world of bitterness, violence, sordid affairs and irresponsibility yet luckily, the tale is saved from the depths of sordid tragedy by the lovely Mrs. Wix who takes Maisie under her wing, so to speak, and shows real affection. James very much enforces the notion of parental responsibility in this incredibly poignant tale of a little girl.
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