Maggie - A Girl of the Streets (eBook)

Tale of New York

Stephen Crane (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
77 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406638841-6 (EAN)

Infos

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, Maggie's brother, as he fights a gang of boys from an opposing neighborhood. He is saved by his friend, Pete, and comes home to a brutal and drunken father. As years pass and their father dies, Jimmie hardens into a sneering, aggressive, cynical youth and 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. He takes her to the theater and the museum, but Jimmie and her mother accuse her of "Goin to deh devil" and throw her out. As the neighbors badmouth Maggie, Pete decides to leave her and she gets scorned by the entire tenement and left on the street.

Autor

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2021
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Americanah • American author • Bridgerton • Early 20th Century • family dynamics • Gritty Urban Setting • harsh realities • Lincoln's Melancholy • Little Women • Narrative tone • Naturalism literature • News of the World • One Day In Summer • Social Realism • The Color Purple • The Once and Future Witches • The Pull of the Stars • The Shadow Box • urban poverty • working-class life