| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: And Other Tales of New York Revised Edition Contributor(s): Crane, Stephen (Author), Ziff, Larzer (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140437975 ISBN-13: 9780140437973 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: With its unflinching portrayal of the squalor and brutality of turn-of-the-century New York, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets produced a scandal when it was first published in 1893. Crane's novel chronicles the life of Maggie Johnson, the daughter of a cruel father and drunken mother, who finds work in a collar factor and is seduced by her brother's menacing friend, Pete. Disowned by her mother, Maggie becomes a prostitute and, ultimately, a victim of despair. But more than the tale of a young woman's tragic fall, the novel is also a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that underlie urban society and human nature. This volume also includes "George's Mother" and eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896. Together in their poised realism these tales confirm Crane's place as the first modern American writer. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99462421 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.1" W x 7.78" (0.42 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago. --Alfred Kazin Maggie, a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that underlie urban society and human nature, produced a scandal when it was first published in 1893. This volume includes George's Mother and eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |