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    Maggie: a Girl of the Streets

    and Other Tales of New York

    Author Stephen Crane
    Introduction by Larzer Ziff
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Aug 01, 2000 | 272 Pages | 9780140437973
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    "A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago." —Alfred Kazin

    Maggie, 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.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    Edited and with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff with the Assistance of Theo Davis

    Introduction: Stephen Crane's New York by Larzer Ziff
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    Note on the Texts

    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) (1893)

    George's Mother (1896)

    Tales of New York
    The Broken-Down Van (1892)
    An Ominous Baby (1893, 1894)
    A Great Mistake (1893, 1896)
    A Dark-Brown Dog (1893, 1901)
    An Experiment in Misery (1894)
    An Experiment in Luxury (1894)
    Mr. Binks' Day Off (1894)
    The Men in the Storm (1894)
    When Man Falls, A Crowd Gathers (1894)
    An Eloquence of Grief (1896, 1898)
    Adventures of a Novelist (1896)

    MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS

    AND OTHER TALES OF NEW YORK

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    Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He attempted college twice, the second time failing a theme-writing course while writing articles for newspapers such as the New York Tribune. In 1892 Crane moved to the poverty of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Bowery so vividly depicted in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. In 1894 the serial publication began of The Red Badge of Courage, his acclaimed and widely popular novel of a young soldier’s coming of age in the Civil War. He died in Germany at the age of twenty-eight, in June of 1900. View titles by Stephen Crane

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    "A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago." —Alfred Kazin

    Maggie, 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.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Table of Contents

    Edited and with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff with the Assistance of Theo Davis

    Introduction: Stephen Crane's New York by Larzer Ziff
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    Note on the Texts

    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) (1893)

    George's Mother (1896)

    Tales of New York
    The Broken-Down Van (1892)
    An Ominous Baby (1893, 1894)
    A Great Mistake (1893, 1896)
    A Dark-Brown Dog (1893, 1901)
    An Experiment in Misery (1894)
    An Experiment in Luxury (1894)
    Mr. Binks' Day Off (1894)
    The Men in the Storm (1894)
    When Man Falls, A Crowd Gathers (1894)
    An Eloquence of Grief (1896, 1898)
    Adventures of a Novelist (1896)

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    MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS

    AND OTHER TALES OF NEW YORK

    . All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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    Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He attempted college twice, the second time failing a theme-writing course while writing articles for newspapers such as the New York Tribune. In 1892 Crane moved to the poverty of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Bowery so vividly depicted in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. In 1894 the serial publication began of The Red Badge of Courage, his acclaimed and widely popular novel of a young soldier’s coming of age in the Civil War. He died in Germany at the age of twenty-eight, in June of 1900. View titles by Stephen Crane

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