Maggie : A Girl Of The Streets - 9781981690152

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The story opens with Jimmie, at this point a young boy, trying by himself to fight a gang of boys from an opposing neighborhood. He is saved by his friend, Pete, and comes home to his sister Maggie, his toddling brother Tommie, his brutal and drunken father and mother, Mary Johnson. The parents terrify the children until they are shuddering in the corner. Years pass, the father and Tommie die, and Jimmie hardens into a sneering, aggressive, cynical youth. He gets a job as a teamster, having no regard for anyone but firetrucks who would run him down. Maggie begins to work in a shirt factory, but her attempts to improve her life are undermined by her mother's drunken rages. Maggie begins to date Jimmie's friend Pete, who has a job as a bartender and seems a very fine fellow, convinced that he will help her escape the life she leads.

• | Author: Stephen Crane
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Dec 14, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 52 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1981690158
• | ISBN-13: 9781981690152