基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：272 页
出版日期：2000年08月
ISBN：0140437975
条形码：9780140437973
版本：New Ed
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：街头女郎梅季

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With its unflinching portrayal of the squalor and brutality of turn-of-the-century New York, Maggie: A Girl of the Streetsproduced a scandal when it was first published in 1893. Crane's novel chronicles the life of Maggie Johnson, the daughter of a cruel father and drunken mother, who finds work in a collar factor and is seduced by her brother's menacing friend, Pete. Disowned by her mother, Maggie becomes a prostitute and, ultimately, a victim of despair. But more than the tale of a young woman's tragic fall, the novel is also a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that underlie urban society and human nature.

This volume also includes "George's Mother" and eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896. Together in their poised realism these tales confirm Crane's place as the first modern American writer.

"A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago."--Alfred Kazin
作者简介 Poet, novelist, and journalist, Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was born in Newark, New Jersey. His works include The Red Badge of Courage; The Black Riders, a volume of poetry; and the stories "The Open Boat" and "The Blue Hotel." He died in Badenweiler, Germany, of tuberculosis.
Larzer Ziff is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Emerson's Selected Essays.