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What Maisie Knew

By: Henry James
Narrated by: Maureen O' Brien
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Maisie is an innocent six year-old, torn between her divorced parents, pathetically isolated yet tragically involved. The only emotional constant in Maisie's life is Mrs. Wix, a motherly old governess.

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Maureen O’Brien made this work much easier to comprehend. O’Brien has such a descriptive voice, that you feel totally drawn in and top of the narrative, which is not how everyone reading the book in my class felt.
The main issue is the dated views on women and women of colour. Women who are either tanned or not Caucasian, being called ugly and nasty descriptions of Jewish people and other distasteful things. It makes you realise why we’ve taken so long to come as far as we have and why these hateful comments still exist today when we have classics like these circulating.

That aside, it’s the use of perspective that’s truly revolutionary, and for anyone whose first books were Harry Potter, you will appreciate the use of this perspective and how far back it has been utilized.

A classic, but dated views on women

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