{"product_id":"what-maisie-knew-9780141441375","title":"What Maisie Knew","description":"By: Henry James     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew\u003c\/i\u003e is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English upper-class society. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida, and her vain father, Beale, who value her only as a means of provoking one another. When both take lovers and remarry, Maisie - solitary, observant and wise beyond her years - is drawn into an entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is at last able to cooperate in choosing her own future. As time conquers innocence, Henry James masterfully portrays Maisie's consciousness developing from simple childlike 'wonder' to a rich, morally-scrupulous adult mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew \u003c\/i\u003eincludes a chronology, suggested further reading, three contemporary reviews, Henry James's own commentaries on the work, and an introduction that examines how children figured in his predecessors' novels, and how war is waged between the sexes in \u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels.\u003cbr\u003eHis novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include \u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e (1880), \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e (1881), \u003ci\u003eThe Awkward Age\u003c\/i\u003e (1899), \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove \u003c\/i\u003e(1902), \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e (1903) and \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e (1904)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Embodies everything that James excelled at in fiction'\u003cbr\u003ePaul Theroux\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Classics \/ Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"GB - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44186372178147,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780141441375","price":92.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB - Hardback","offer_id":48966652821731,"sku":"DTRPRUK-9789357314558","price":120.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780141441375.jpg?v=1734859386","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/what-maisie-knew-9780141441375","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}