Maggie: a Girl of the Streets: and Other Tales of New York"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. |
Contents
Stephen Cranes New York | vii |
Suggestions for Further Reading | xxvii |
A Note on the Texts | xxix |
A Girl of the Streets A Story of New York 1893 | 1 |
Georges Mother 1896 | 87 |
Tales of New York | 157 |
The BrokenDown Van 1892 | 159 |
An Ominous Baby 1893 1894 | 167 |
A DarkBrown Dog 1893 1901 | 175 |
An Experiment in Misery 1894 | 183 |
An Experiment in Luxury 1894 | 195 |
Mr Binks Day Off 1894 | 205 |
The Men in the Storm 1894 | 215 |
When Man Falls a Crowd Gathers 1894 | 223 |
An Eloquence of Grief 1896 1898 | 229 |
Adventures of a Novelist 1896 | 233 |
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