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Maggie by Stephen Crane (1988, Paperback, Reissue) 
Maggie by Stephen Crane (1988, Paperback, Reissue)

 
Maggie by Stephen Crane (1988, Paperback, Reissue)

Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept
Publication Date: 1988-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0553213555
ISBN-13: 9780553213553
Product ID: EPID657781
Description: Originally published privately, under the name Johnston Smith, MAGGIE was written when Stephen Crane was 21 years old. It concerns Maggie Johnson, a tenement girl, who is treated brutally as a child by her alcoholic mother. She eventuall...
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Synopsis
Originally published privately, under the name Johnston Smith, MAGGIE was written when Stephen Crane was 21 years old. It concerns Maggie Johnson, a tenement girl, who is treated brutally as a child by her alcoholic mother. She eventually escapes to her brother's friend Pete, who seduces her. Because she has dishonored herself, the family disowns her; when Pete leaves her, Maggie becomes a prostitute. Crane intended, in this novel, "to show that environment is a tremendous thing in the world and frequently shapes lives regardless."

Details
Publication Date:1988-11-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Length:218 pages
Height:6.8 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:4.0 oz

Publisher's Note
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, 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.

The first social expose in fiction to render "how the other half lives", Stephen Crane's Maggie is one of the most powerful depictions of the urban poor of its time. As a reviewer stated shortly after the work's appearance in 1893: "Maggie is a study of life in the slums of New York, and of the hopeless struggle of a girl against the horrible conditions of her environment; and so bitter is the struggle, so black the environment, so inevitable is the end, that the reader feels a chill at his heart".

Industry Reviews
"The true Stephen Crane was the Stephen Crane of the earlier books, the earliest book; for 'Maggie' remains the best thing he did."
North American Review - William Dean Howells (12/19/2002)

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