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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780141441375 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
813.4 |
| Item number |
JAM |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
James, Henry |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
What Maisie knew |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2010 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxxvii, 309 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
20 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
599.00 |
| Price type code |
₹ |
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01 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Penguin Classics |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
With an Introduction by Pat Righelato, University of Reading The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the characters on the seedy fringes of the English upper class is conveyed with wit and relish. The dual perspective of a sophisticated narrator richly appreciative of the absurdities of the adult sexual merry-go-round and the candid vision of Maisie, 'rebounding' from one parent to another like a 'shuttlecock', together create an 'associational magic'. Strangely, unexpectedly, from so much that is tawdry, comes a tale of moral energy and subtlety. James's foresight was in understanding the modernity of his subject, which is even more relevant today in the twenty-first century. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Educational Novels |
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Children of Divorced |
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Domestic Fiction |
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Short Stories |
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Historical Fiction |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Ricks, Christopher |
| Relator term |
ed. |
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| Item type |
Books |