![]() ![]() ![]() ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. In addition to a new introduction, this edition of the novel offers particularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of variant readings. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspires James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass between adult and child. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent `wonder', James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Book excerpt: What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Book Synopsis What Maisie Knew by : Henry JamesÄownload or read book What Maisie Knew written by Henry James and published by OUP Oxford. ![]()
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