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What Maisie Knew
- Author
- Henry James
- Narrator
- Margaret Melosh
- Publisher
- Musaicum Books
- Publish Date
- 1 June 2019
- Run Time
- 9 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Henry James
- Narrator
- Margaret Melosh
- Duration
- 9 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 June 2019
- ISBN
- 4057664186072
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Musaicum Books
- Genre
- Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: coming of age
Synopsis
What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible parents. The book is also a masterly technical achievement by James, as it follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity. When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie to intensify their hatred of each other. Beale Farange marries Miss Overmore, Maisie's pretty governess, while Ida marries the likeable but weak Sir Claude. Maisie gets a new governess: the frumpy, somewhat-ridiculous but devoted Mrs. Wix.
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