Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction [Bantam Classic]
by Stephen Crane 
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Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in 1893. Condemned and misunderstood during Crane’s lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty child of the Bowery has since been recognized as a landmark work in American fiction. Now Crane’s great short novel of life in turn-of-the-century New York is published in its original form, show more along with four of Crane’s best short stories–The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Monster, and The Open Boat–stories of such remarkable power and clarity that they stand among the finest short stories ever written by an American. show lessTags
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Praised as experimental fiction, I struggled through Maggie. A girl of the streets and did not find much pleasure reading the other stories.
3594. Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction, by Stephen Crane (read July 3 2002) Maggie first was published in 1893 by an anonymous publisher. Looking at it as reading material I thought the slang dated and odd-sounding and the characters were all stupid-acting. One was expected to feel sorry for Maggie, who is led into an immoral life though quite innocent. Her parents are unbelievably dysfunctional and I could not get caught up in the story. There are also four shorter stories in the book, including the classic "The Open Boat" which I had read before and which is memorable.
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Stephen Crane authored novels, short stories, and poetry, but is best known for his realistic war fiction. Crane was a correspondent in the Greek-Turkish War and the Spanish American War, penning numerous articles, war reports and sketches. His most famous work, The Red Badge of Courage (1896), portrays the initial cowardice and later courage of a show more Union soldier in the Civil War. In addition to six novels, Crane wrote over a hundred short stories including "The Blue Hotel," "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," and "The Open Boat." His first book of poetry was The Black Riders (1895), ironic verse in free form. Crane wrote 136 poems. Crane was born November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. After briefly attending Lafayette College and Syracuse University, he became a freelance journalist in New York City. He published his first novel, Maggie: Girl of the Streets, at his own expense because publishers found it controversial: told with irony and sympathy, it is a story of the slum girl driven to prostitution and then suicide. Crane died June 5, 1900, at age 28 from tuberculosis. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction [Bantam Classic]
- Original publication date
- 1893
- People/Characters
- Maggie
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
- First words
- A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea"s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.
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- Contains: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets • The Blue Hotel • The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky • The Monster • The Open Boat
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