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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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SUMMARY: From Robert Tine’s Introduction to Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings about New York Crane was determined to live in the city and to make his living with his pen. Living a bohemian, hand-to-mouth existence, he took to vanishing into the vast netherworld of the city, living among the whores, the drunks, the drug addicts, and the “b’hoys,” the Irish gangster swells of the Bowery. Emerging from this underworld, Crane would have enough material for a freelance newspaper piece as well as other material that would become Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Occasional newspaper work, a small but providential inheritance, and regular handouts from one of his brothers allowed Crane to cobble together a modest living—but it was Maggie on which he had pinned his hopes. By 1892 Crane had finished writing Maggie. He approached the editor of Century Magazine, hoping his story would be serialized in the pages of that august publication. Almost immediately his hopes were dashed. The editor found the manuscript “cruel” and far too straightforward about the awful details of slum life. At the time there was no shortage of literature about the life of the underclass, but it was alway
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- Author
- Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Classics
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781593082482
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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- Maggie: a girl of the streets : (a story of New York) ; (1893) ; an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, the author and the novel, reviews and criticism (1979)
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- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) (Bedford Cultural Editions) (2016)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) (Bedford Cultural Editions) (1999)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) (1995)
- Maggie A Girl Of The Streets And Other Short Fiction By Stephen Crane (2006)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (2013)
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