{"product_id":"what-maisie-knew-6","title":"What Maisie Knew","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation.\" -T. S. Eliot \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"Reading Henry James is like putting a new faculty to the test. This is the true morality.”\n\n-Anita Brookner \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A very modern story about aimless lives and messy marriages”- Paul Theroux\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\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\n\n\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","brand":"Graphic Arts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40313376178259,"sku":"9781513219363","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781513219363.jpg?v=1765290630","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/what-maisie-knew-6","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}