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What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry JamesPublish date:2015-04-20Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781511805896ISBN-10:1511805897UPC:9781511805896Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:8.50 x 5.51 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCJGEE3P1A
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. Both Ida and Beale soon cheat on their spouses; in turn, Claude and the new Mrs. Farange begin an affair with each other. Maisie's parents essentially abandon her and she becomes largely the responsibility of Sir Claude. Eventually, Maisie must decide if she wants to remain with Sir Claude and Mrs. Farange. In the book's long final section set in France, the older (probably teenaged) Maisie struggles to choose between them and Mrs Wix, and concludes that her new parents' relationship will likely end as her biological parents' did. She leaves them and goes to stay with Mrs. Wix, her most reliable adult guardian.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781511805896ISBN-10:1511805897UPC:9781511805896Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:8.50 x 5.51 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCJGEE3P1A
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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