{"product_id":"what-maisie-knew-9781513219363","title":"What Maisie Knew","description":"\u003cp\u003e[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation. -T. S. Eliot \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Reading Henry James is like putting a new faculty to the test. This is the true morality.\" -Anita Brookner \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A very modern story about aimless lives and messy marriages\"- Paul Theroux\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry James' \u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaisie 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. As the bitter divorce of her parents is settled in split custody, the emotional cruelty only increases. She is cared for by two governesses; the homely Mrs. Wix at her Mother's house, and the beautiful Miss Overmore at her father's home. 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mint Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781513219363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Henry James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40239918416053,"sku":"9781513219363","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_738292af-9da4-493a-a62f-5677ac25fc24.jpg?v=1623726784","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/what-maisie-knew-9781513219363","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}