" James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T.
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..
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.
Wix at her Mother\'s house, and the beautiful Miss Overmore at her father\'s home.
She is cared for by two governesses; the homely Mrs.
As the bitter divorce of her parents is settled in split custody, the emotional cruelty only increases.
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.
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.
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.
Eliot "Reading Henry James is like putting a new faculty to the test.
S. " James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T
