Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editor's preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
- The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)
- The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
- George's Mother (1896)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1896)
- The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War (1896)
- The Third Violet (1897)
- The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure (1898)
- Pictures of War (1898)
- War is Kind (1899)
- Active Service: A Novel (1899)
- The Monster and Other Stories (1899)
- Bowery Tales (1900)
- Whilomville Stories (1900)
- Wounds in the Rain: War Stories (1900)
- The Monster and Other Stories (1901)
- Great Battles of the World (1901)
- Last Words (1902)
- The O'Ruddy (1903)
- Index
- References
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1896)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editor's preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
- The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)
- The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
- George's Mother (1896)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1896)
- The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War (1896)
- The Third Violet (1897)
- The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure (1898)
- Pictures of War (1898)
- War is Kind (1899)
- Active Service: A Novel (1899)
- The Monster and Other Stories (1899)
- Bowery Tales (1900)
- Whilomville Stories (1900)
- Wounds in the Rain: War Stories (1900)
- The Monster and Other Stories (1901)
- Great Battles of the World (1901)
- Last Words (1902)
- The O'Ruddy (1903)
- Index
- References
Summary
Henry Edward Rood. “Stephen Crane's ‘Maggie.’” New York Mail and Express, May 30, 1896, p. 18
Several years ago Stephen Crane wrote a story of slum life in New York and printed it himself in brown paper covers with the title “Maggie, a Girl of the Streets.” During the last six months he has rewritten the tale, and soon it will be published by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., through whose courtesy advance sheets have been carefully examined. And the conviction is forced upon one that by writing “Maggie” Mr. Crane has made for himself a permanent place in literature. It matters not if he continues to grind out grotesque verse and slipshod short stories. These may injure him temporarily so far as money returns are concerned. But it is enough that he has written “Maggie”—one of the most powerful, terrible and hideous studies of the dregs of humanity that have been produced in the English language.
There will be discussion as to the advisability of writing for perusal by the general public such a book as “Maggie.” Some will say it is unfit for reading by decent people; others that its masterful presentation of existing barbarism in the chief of American cities will result in renewed effort to better the condition of those miserable, bestial creatures in human form who reside in certain portions of the East side.
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- Stephen CraneThe Contemporary Reviews, pp. 99 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009