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MAGGIE - A Girl of the Streets
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OTHER WRITINGS ABOUT NEW YORK
A NIGHT AT THE MILLIONAIRE’S CLUB.
AN EXPERIMENT IN MISERYHe Finds His Field. He Finds His Supper. Enter The Assassin. He Finds His Bed. A Place of Smells. To The Polite, Horrors. Men Lay Like The Dead. Then Morning Came. Breakfast. A Retrospect. The Life of a King.
AN EXPERIMENT IN LUXURYAt The Portals of Luxury. “The World of Chance. ”The Glory of Gold. Parental Portraits. The Joys of a Millionaire. The Gold Woman. The Business of Being Beautiful. Croesus Dines.
MR. BINKS’ DAY OFF
CONEY ISLAND’S FAILING DAYSCrabs That Seemed Fresh. Dreariness in The Music Halls. The Philosophy of Frankfurters. The End of it All.
IN A PARK ROW RESTAURANTLike Distracted Water Bugs. The Habit of Great Speed. To Save Time.
THE MEN IN THE STORM
WHEN EVERY ONE IS PANIC STRICKENFire!
WHEN MAN FALLS, A CROWD GATHERS
OPIUM’S VARIED DREAMS.
NEW YORK’S BICYCLE SPEEDWAY
ADVENTURES OF A NOVELIST.
IN THE TENDERLOIN
THE “TENDERLOIN” AS IT REALLY IS
IN THE “TENDERLOIN”
STEPHEN CRANE IN MINETTA LANENot Then a Thoroughfare.
No Toe Charley. A Picture of Suffering. Memories of the Past. “Pop’s” View of It. Keeping in Touch.FROM THE PAGES OF MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS and Other Writings About New York
A stone had smashed into Jimmie’s mouth. Blood was bubbling over his chin and down upon his ragged shirt. Tears made furrows on his dirt-stained cheeks. His thin legs had begun to tremble and turn weak, causing his small body to reel. (from “Maggie,” pages 7-8)
The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle. She grew to be a most rare and wonderful production of a tenement district, a pretty girl.
(from “Maggie,” page 22)
“Teh hell wid him and you,” she said, glowering at her daughter in the gloom. Her eyes seemed to burn balefully. “Yeh’ve gone teh deh devil, Mag Johnson, yehs knows yehs have gone teh deh devil. Yer a disgrace teh yer people, damn yeh. ” (from “Maggie,” page 39)
As the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his respectability by a vigorous sidestep. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to know that there was a soul before him that needed saving? (from “Maggie,” page 64)
“I know he ain’t th’ kind a man I’d like t’ have you go around with. He ain’t a good man. I’m sure he ain’t. He drinks. ”
(from “George’s Mother,” page 82)
He remembered Jones. He could not help but admire a man who knew so many bartenders. (from “George’s Mother,” page 93)
For three days they lived in silence. He brooded upon his mother’s agony and felt a singular joy in it.
(from “George’s Mother,” page . 119)
From the dark and secret places of the building there suddenly came to his nostrils strange and unspeakable odors that assailed him like malignant diseases with wings. They seemed to be from human bodies closely packed in dens; the exhalations from a hundred pairs of reeking lips; the fumes from a thousand bygone debauches; the expression of a thousand present miseries.
