George's Mother (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
3/5
()
About this ebook
Published in 1896, this quasi-sequel to Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), explores and exposes the dark side of life in the Bowery using the same technique of literary realism that Crane had employed in the earlier novel and in his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage (1895).
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1871. He died in Germany on June 5, 1900.
Read more from Stephen Crane
The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1): 34 of the Greatest Stories Ever Written Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Open Boat Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great Short Works of Stephen Crane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Monster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Blue Hotel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Greatest American Short Stories: 50+ Classics of American Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Experiment in Misery: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Blue Hotel: Short Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Civil War Memories: Nineteen Stories of Battle, Bravery, Love, and Tragedy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Greatest American Short Stories (Vol. 1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Open Boat: Short Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Short Stories – Best Books Boxed Set: 50+ Classics of American Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Military MEGAPACK®: 25 Great Tales of War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to George's Mother (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Related ebooks
George's Mother Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeorge's Mother (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeorge’s Mother Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJonah Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTess Mercury and the Crooked Pink Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Rolling Stone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Picaroons Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Deaves Affair Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Accidental Terrorist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three Soldiers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Texican: Western Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSundown Slim Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Spoilers of the Valley Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChains Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWilliam Somerset Maugham: The Greatest Works (The Giants of Literature - Book 23) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Jack Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (33 Works in One Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Travel Sketches Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEve: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPunch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Red Symbol Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMany Kingdoms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThey of the High Trails Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Dead of Night Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ghost Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Road: Personal Memoirs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShakespeare's Blood: Mercedes Mysteries, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Black Cross Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Classics For You
The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wuthering Heights (with an Introduction by Mary Augusta Ward) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Confederacy of Dunces Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things They Carried Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Little Women (Seasons Edition -- Winter) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Master & Margarita Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Master and Margarita Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebecca Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Learn French! Apprends l'Anglais! THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY: In French and English Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Grapes of Wrath Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Jungle: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Count of Monte-Cristo English and French Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sense and Sensibility (Centaur Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Affair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for George's Mother (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
2 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
George's Mother (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - Stephen Crane
GEORGE'S MOTHER
STEPHEN CRANE
This 2011 edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
122 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
ISBN: 978-1-4114-3756-2
CONTENTS
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
I
IN the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures. There were long rows of shops, whose fronts shone with full, golden light. Here and there, from druggists' windows, or from the red street-lamps that indicated the positions of fire-alarm boxes, a flare of uncertain, wavering crimson was thrown upon the wet pavements.
The lights made shadows, in which the buildings loomed with a new and tremendous massiveness, like castles and fortresses. There were endless processions of people, mighty hosts, with umbrellas waving, banner-like, over them. Horse-cars, aglitter with new paint, rumbled in steady array between the pillars that supported the elevated railroad. The whole street resounded with the tinkle of bells, the roar of iron-shod wheels on the cobbles, the ceaseless trample of the hundreds of feet. Above all, too, could be heard the loud screams of the tiny newsboys, who scurried in all directions. Upon the corners, standing in from the dripping eaves, were many loungers, descended from the world that used to prostrate itself before pageantry.
A brown young man went along the avenue. He held a tin lunch-pail under his arm in a manner that was evidently uncomfortable. He was puffing at a corn-cob pipe. His shoulders had a self-reliant poise, and the hang of his arms and the raised veins of his hands showed him to be a man who worked with his muscles.
As he passed a street-corner a man in old clothes gave a shout of surprise, and rushing impetuously forward, grasped his hand.
Hello, Kelcey, ol' boy,
cried the man in old clothes. How's th' boy, anyhow? Where in thunder yeh been fer th' last seventeen years? I'll be hanged if you ain't th' last man I ever expected t' see.
The brown youth put his pail to the ground and grinned. Well, if it ain't ol' Charley Jones,
he said, ecstatically shaking hands. How are yeh, anyhow? Where yeh been keepin' yerself? I ain't seen yeh fer a year?
Well, I should say so! Why, th' last time I saw you was up in Handyville!
Sure! On Sunday, we——
Sure! Out at Bill Sickles's place. Let's go get a drink!
They made toward a little glass-fronted saloon that sat blinking jovially at the crowds. It engulfed them with a gleeful motion of its two widely smiling lips.
What'll yeh take, Kelcey?
Oh, I guess I'll take a beer.
Gimme little whiskey, John.
The two friends leaned against the bar and looked with enthusiasm upon each other.
Well, well, I'm thunderin' glad t' see yeh,
said Jones.
Well, I guess,
replied Kelcey. Here's to yeh, ol' man.
Let 'er go.
They lifted their glasses, glanced fervidly at each other, and drank.
Yeh ain't changed much, on'y yeh've growed like th' devil,
said Jones, reflectively, as he put down his glass. I'd know yeh anywheres!
Certainly yeh would,
said Kelcey. An' I knew you, too, th' minute I saw yeh. Yer changed, though!
Yes,
admitted Jones, with some complacency, I s'pose I am.
He regarded himself in the mirror that multiplied the bottles on the shelf back of the bar. He should have seen a grinning face with a rather pink nose. His derby was perched carelessly on the back part of his head. Two wisps of hair straggled down over his hollow temples. There was something very worldly and wise about him. Life did not seem to confuse him. Evidently he understood its complications. His hand thrust into his trousers' pocket, where he jingled keys, and his hat perched back on his head expressed a young man of vast knowledge. His extensive acquaintance with bartenders aided him materially in this habitual expression of wisdom.
Having finished he turned to the barkeeper. John, has any of th' gang been in t'-night yet?
No—not yet,
said the barkeeper. Ol' Bleecker was aroun' this afternoon about four. He said if I seen any of th' boys t' tell 'em he'd be up t'-night if he could get away. I saw Connor an' that other fellah goin' down th' avenyeh about an hour ago. I guess they'll be back after awhile.
This is th' hang-out fer a great gang,
said Jones, turning to Kelcey. They're a great crowd, I tell yeh. We own th' place when we get started. Come aroun' some night. Any night, almost. T'-night, b' jiminy. They'll almost all be here, an' I'd like t' interduce yeh. They're a great gang! Gre-e-at!
I'd like teh,
said Kelcey.
Well, come ahead, then,
cried the other, cordially. Ye'd like t' know 'em. It's an outa sight crowd. Come aroun' t'-night!
I will if I can.
Well, yeh ain't got anything t' do, have yeh?
demanded Jones. Well, come along, then. Yeh might just as well spend yer time with a good crowd 'a fellahs. An' it's a great gang. Great! Gre-e-at!
Well, I must make fer home now, anyhow,
said Kelcey. It's late as blazes. What'll yeh take this time, ol'man?
Gimme little more whiskey, John!
Guess I'll take another beer!
Jones emptied the whiskey into his large mouth and then put the glass upon the bar. Been in th' city long?
he asked. Um—well, three years is a good deal fer a slick man. Doin' well? Oh, well, nobody's doin' well these days.