Maggie, a Child of the Streets

Stephen Crane

Huge Print Press, 1896 - New York (N.Y.) - 151 pages

Maggie is an astonishing novel of social realism, which parallels many of today's ills. Set in the urban squalor of New York in the 1890s, it follows the careers of the innocent Maggie and her brother Jimmie, children of brutal and drunken parents. It is a tour-de-force equal to The Red Badge of Courage.

Contents

• Section 1: 9
• Section 2: 18
• Section 3: 26
• Section 4: 35
• Section 5: 42
• Section 6: 49
• Section 7: 58
• Section 8: 66
• Section 9: 74
• Section 10: 81
• Section 11: 93
• Section 12: 98
• Section 13: 105
• Section 14: 116
• Section 15: 123
• Section 16: 130
• Section 17: 136
• Section 18: 144

About the author

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 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Maggie, a Child of the Streets; Wright American fiction
• Author: Stephen Crane
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Huge Print Press, 1896
• Original from: University of California, Berkeley
• Digitized: Apr 20, 2015
• ISBN: 075831440X, 9780758314406
• Length: 151 pages