The Collected Works of Henry James, Vol. 06 (of 24): What Maisie Knew; The Awkward Age; Hawthorne - Couverture souple

James, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1662714742 ISBN 13 : 9781662714740

Editeur : Bookland Classics, 2020

Synopsis

What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (reed and abridged) in the New Rew in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, ir and narcissistic parents. The book 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 ridious, but devoted Mrs. Wix.


Both Ida and Beale soon cheat on their spouses; in turn, Sir Claude and the new Mrs. Farange begin an affair with each other. Maisie's parents 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.


The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. Originally conceived as a brief, light story about the complications created in her family's social set by a young girl coming of age, the novel expanded into a general treatment of decadence and corruption in English fin de siècle life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bookland Classics
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1662714742
• ISBN 13: 9781662714740
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 856
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible