Bibliograph

What Maisie knew, Henry James ; edited by Douglas Jefferson and Douglas Grant

Type

Label

What Maisie knew, Henry James ; edited by Douglas Jefferson and Douglas Grant

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

What Maisie knew

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Henry James ; edited by Douglas Jefferson and Douglas Grant

Series statement

World's classics

Summary

When Maisie's parents are divorced six-year-old Maisie is divided in two. They would take her, in rotation, for six months at a time; she would spend half the year with each. The relationships between Maisie's divorced parents and their subsequent partners are treated entirely through scenes in which she participates from her point of view, subtly and descreetly supplemented by the narrator's fuller understanding

Target audience

adult

Classification