Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1516807618 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 98 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"A City In Fragments" according to Bill Slocum. The world of Stephen Crane's Manhattan doesn't exist any more, a fact for which we can be grateful. It's a world where poverty, alcoholism and disease were not only rampant but blamed entirely on the victims.Crane was no humanist; he was content to record the depravity around him with a keen eye and a cool heart. In his mind man was but passing flashes of cosmic debris, and his New York stories, written in the first half of 1890s . "Four Stars" according to Amazon Customer. nice book. "Naturalism at its best" according to Margaret. The story shows Crane's brilliance at creating character and weaving all the sordid details together. A good read for psychological realism.
The story of Maggie Johnson a young woman who, seduced by her brother's friend and then disowned by her family, turns to prostitution. Regarded as the first work of unalloyed naturalism in American fiction
American author Stephen Crane began writing early in life, and was already a published author by the age of sixteen. Crane died in 1900 at the age twenty-eight of tuberculosis, but had a significant and lasting impact on twentieth-century literature, influencing early modernist writers such as Ernest Hemingway. Among Crane s best known works are Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which is considered to be the first literary work in th
"He was the first American writer because he was the first to be passionately interested in the life that surrounded him and the life that surrounded him was that of America."