Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

ISBN-13: 9781605971216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 88 str.

Stephen Crane

Opis

First published in 1893, this realistic tale of a young girl in the slums of New York shocked readers. With five other stories, from the local color of small-town life to war stories full of irony and heroism, this collection exhibits the genius of Crane. Reissue.

Maggiss family are Irish immigrants living in New York in the late 1800s. Maggie is the daughter of a drunken mother and a cruel father. She is seduced by a friend of her brothers and subsequently thrown out by her family. She becomes a prostitute to survive. Her life is an excellent example of the harshness of urban life.