What Maisie Knew (The Unabridged Edition): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The ... Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American... - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8026891015 ISBN 13: 9788026891017

Verlag: e-artnow, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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. Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: e-artnow
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8026891015
• ISBN 13: 9788026891017
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
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