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Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane
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Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its distinctive elements of naturalistic fiction. The chief character, Maggie, descends into prostitution after being led astray by her lover. Rather than focusing on those that make up the very rich or middle class, the novel highlights the deplorable living conditions of the working class during the so-called Gilded Age in New York's Bowery.
Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its distinctive elements of naturalistic fiction. The chief character, Maggie, descends into prostitution after being led astray by her lover. Rather than focusing on those that make up the very rich or middle class, the novel highlights the deplorable living conditions of the working class during the so-called Gilded Age in New York's Bowery.
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A reader of words of wind-demons might have been able to see the portions of a dialogue pass to and fro between the exhorter and his hearers.
"You are damned," said the preacher. And the reader of sounds might have seen the reply go forth from the ragged people: "Where's our soup?"
Jimmie and a companion sat in a rear seat and commented upon the things that didn't concern them, with all the freedom of English gentlemen. When they grew thirsty and went out their minds confused the speaker with Christ.
Momentarily, Jimmie was sullen with thoughts of a hopeless altitude where grew fruit. His companion said that if he should ever meet God he would ask for a million dollars and a bottle of beer.
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Community Reviews
I didn’t hate this one but I also struggled to see the point of it. This little novella took me days when it should have taken mere hours. I found the P.O.V changes interesting. Maggie was so abused and neglected. She messed up once and now she’s ruined. Very puritanical despite it being set in the
Fena değildi. Hoş vakit geçirmek için iyi bir seçimdi. Bu kitapla Amerika'nın getto mahallesindeki yaşamdan bir kesit gördük.
Ah, wha' deh hell.
★★★ e ½
Maggie ragazza di strada è l’esordio letterario di Stephen Crane, scrittore e giornalista statunitense che morì giovane (1871-1900).
Il breve romanzo fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1893 ed è indicato come la prima opera del Realismo americano.
Fin dalle prime righe si è catapultati in sto
The novel sets in the Bowery area of New York City, It describes the sordid and almost hopeless existence of Maggie Johnson. As children, she and her brothers are alternately neglected and abused by their drunken parents, and her baby brother Tommie dies as a result of this mistreatment.
What men love is sluts. Show a man a poor innocent pretty young girl forced by circumstance or evil into prostitution and he cannot wait to start sighing and what-a-pitying and that-poor-waifing and but-what-was-she-wearinging and it's liable to get pretty maudlin in here by the time she dies. (Wait
A fine if grievous overview of squalid Bowery and its way of life... The story stands out as resolutely immersive to say the least!
Some comparison may be drawn between this one and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, as both yield naturalistic-friendly contents and gloomy depictions of human misery.
Matchi
This book is a treasure, as much for the story of Crane's trying to get it published as for the story itself. I am always drawn to authors' first books. There's often an energy there lost in latter books. The energy and intensity of this story made gave it a momentum that wasn't lost on The Red Badg