What Maisie Knew
and The Pupil
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407087542
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
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A brilliant social comedy seen wholly from a child's point of view, this is a dazzling technical feat that, as always with James, deepens as it develops - like the life of the child herself. An exhilarating prelude to the great novels of his famous late phase
Alan Hollinghurst, New York Times
An ugly little comedy
Henry James
Contains some of his best comedy and some of his most melancholy insights...embodies everything that James excelled at in fiction
Paul Theroux
Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry
Graham Greene
James' finest working of his preoccupation with the theme of innocence corrupted... James is the master of making what is not said the most important thing on the page
Kate Atkinson
Perfect
F. R. Leavis