Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Stephen Crane

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

In the squalor and violence of the New York slums, a girl blossoms in a mud-puddle, is seduced and cast out by her self-righteous family, and sinks by pitiless stages to the black river. Crane's brutal, pioneering short novel, a landmark of American naturalism.

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