What Maisie Knew (The Unabridged Edition) (eBook)

A child of divorce navigates custody, neglect, and moral ambiguity from childhood to precocious maturity in Victorian realism

Henry James (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
201 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
978-80-268-3658-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This carefully crafted ebook: "What Maisie Knew (The Unabridged Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.7.2017
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: a little princess • Anne Shirley • british-american author • Bronte • Charles Dickens • child custody • divorced parents • family dysfunction • Jane Austen • Jane Eyre • Little Women • morally ambiguous characters • parental neglect • Precocious maturity • Psychological Complexity • realistic fiction • The Secret Garden • Thomas Hardy • Victorian Era • Virginia Woolf
• ISBN-10: 80-268-3658-8 / 8026836588
• ISBN-13: 978-80-268-3658-2 / 9788026836582