Porgy, a disabled beggar who travels in a goat-cart, lives in Catfish Row, a crowded tenement of Charleston’s Black waterfront. When he takes in Bess, a woman with a bad reputation, their love is tested by the violent stevedore Crown, the dealer Sportin’ Life, a hurricane and the white law outside the Row.
The 1925 novel that became the play and the Gershwin opera; it is a white Southerner’s portrait of Gullah life, with the attitudes of its day. Download the free EPUB.