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What Maisie Knew by Henry James

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Item	387358120702
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Condition	Brand New
EAN	9781515112242
UPC	9781515112242
ISBN	9781515112242
Format	Paperback, 104 pages
Recommended Age Range	0-12 months
Author	Henry James
Book Title	What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Item Height	0.6 cm
Item Length	22.9 cm
Item Weight	0.15 kg
Item Width	15.2 cm
Language	Eng
Publisher	Createspace

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.