Maggie - A Girl of the Streets (A Norton Critical Edition)
by:
Stephen Crane (author)
ISBN:
9780393012224 (0393012220)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
Historical Fiction,
College,
19th Century,
Short Stories
I guess I'll eventually bother to review this, but it will probably be a rather dull review. So. Yeah.
I thought I'd never read a book sadder than The Chocolate War, but I was wrong. Maggie: A Girl of The Streets is desolate. What I found most disturbing about it is that Maggie largely doesn't have parents, and certainly not loving parents. Both parents are alcoholics, and the father dies early. The ...