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Plot summary When Beale and Ida Farange divorce, 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.
- Henry James
- 304 pp (Heinemann), 470 pp (Stone)
- 1897
- 17 September 1897 (Heinemann), 16 October 1897 (Stone)
What Maisie Knew Summary. Maisie comes from a broken home. Her parents, Ida and Beale, have decided to split up, and due to the bitterness of their marriage, they resort to using Maisie to insult each other. When they are given joint custody of Maisie, she realizes the extent of their hate towards each other and it begins to wear her down.
What Maisie Knew is a scathing reprimand to what James saw as a corrupt society. Woven throughout this rebuke, readers will discover James’s own dark sense of humor, evidenced in Mrs. Wix’s infatuation with Sir Claude and Beale’s involvement with what he tells Maisie is an American countess.
Summary. What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James. It was originally published in serial form in American literary magazine The Chap-Book in 1897, and re-released as a revised, abridged novel later that year.
What Maisie Knew is the story of the breakup of an English couple, seen through the eyes of their little girl, Maisie, who is the victim. The starting point is a divorce, as a child, a remarriage. The reader knows of events only what Maisie perceives, but with our adult interpretation, we know more things since we can interpret the signs ...
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What Maisie Knew (em português, O quê Maisie sabia ou Pelos Olhos de Maisie) é um romance de Henry James, publicado primeiramente como série em The Chap-Book, e (revisto e resumido) na New Review em 1897, e posteriormente como livro no mesmo ano [ 1]. Trata-se da história de uma filha sensível de pais divorciados e irresponsáveis.
Article History. What Maisie Knew, novel by Henry James, published in 1897. Set mostly in England, the novel is related from the perspective of Maisie, a preadolescent whose parents were divorced when she was six years old and who spends six months of the year with each parent.
