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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephan Crane

The story follows Jimmie Johnson and his family as they struggle to survive in New York's Bowery neighborhood. Jimmie, his older sister Maggie, and their younger brother must face an abusive father and a drunken mother. As Maggie struggles to rise above her situation, her reputation is questioned and tarnished until she is left with no choice but to become the very thing she is accused of being.

Maggie is a shockingly explicit portrait of the brutal conditions that existed in the poverty-stricken slums of New York.

M: Great story about a young girl who tries so hard for a better life but is given a losing hand by Fate.

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