Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: (A Story of New York)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312218249 (0312218249)
Publish date: January 15th 1999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Pages no: 396
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 ...