Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

"Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" is a novella by the American author Stephen Crane. The story tells about the life of Maggie, a girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The work received a lot of criticism for its literary realism and strong themes, and it exposed such complex topics as drinking, personal decay, social injustice, and prostitution.