Maggie: a Girl of the Streets

<b>A powerful severe and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago. &#151;Alfred Kazin</b><br><br> <i>Maggie</i> a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that underlie urban society and human nature produced a scandal when it was first published in 1893. This volume includes George's Mother and eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896.<br><br>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700&#160;titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the&#160;series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date&#160;translations by award-winning translators.