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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407087542
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

What Maisie Knew

and The Pupil





'A very modern story about aimless lives and messy marriages' Paul Theroux

'A very modern story about aimless lives and messy marriages' Paul Theroux

Caught in the crossfire of her parents' acrimonious divorce, witness to their battles, intrigues and affairs, neglected and exploited, Maisie is a child who knows too much about the world of adults. James's portrait of a little girl who maintains her goodness and dignity in the face of the bitterness and profligacy of her warring parents is both thought-provoking and inspiring.

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407087542
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

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Emma
Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

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Praise for What Maisie Knew

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
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