Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Summary

Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was first published at his own expense in 1893. Literary critic William Dean Howells was so impressed with the novel that he helped get it published by D. Appleton and Company in 1896. Maggie came to be regarded as one of Crane's finest and most eloquent statements on environmental determinism.

The story centers on Maggie Johnson, a pretty young woman who struggles to survive the brutal...

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Maggie, a Girl of the Streets

30,420 words, approx. 102 pages

Title:  Maggie:  A Girl of the Streets Author:  Stephen Crane Release Date:  February, 1996 [EBook #447] [This edition was posted on December 25, 2002] [Most recently updated:&nbs... Read more

Stephen Crane Biographies (6)

Stephen Crane

1,161 words, approx. 4 pages

Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American fiction writer and poet, was also a newspaper reporter. His novel "The Red Badge of Courage" stands high among the world's books depicting warfare.After the Civi... Read more

Stephen Crane

4,608 words, approx. 16 pages

Stephen Crane is considered to be one of the most talented and influential writers of the late 1800s. He is known for his innovative style of writing, his vivid sense of irony, and his penetrating and... Read more

Stephen Crane

16,476 words, approx. 55 pages

Biography EssayA precursor of the imagists in poetry and of the novelists writing the new fiction of the 1920s, Stephen Crane was one of the most gifted and influential writers of the late nineteenth ... Read more

Stephen (Townley) Crane

15,983 words, approx. 54 pages

A precursor of the imagists in poetry and of the novelists writing the new fiction of the 1920s, Stephen Crane was one of the most gifted and influential writers of the late nineteenth century, noted ... Read more

Stephen (Townley) Crane

4,104 words, approx. 14 pages

Author at twenty-one of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), the first naturalistic novel of American slum life, and at twenty-four of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), an American classic which catap... Read more

Stephen (Townley) Crane

8,045 words, approx. 27 pages

Stephen Crane lived fast and aggressively, and although he died at age twenty-eight, he managed to exceed a normal lifetime's experience in travel and exposure to extremes of human condition and endea... Read more

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Symbolism in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

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In Maggie a Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane uses animal images and color symbolism to de-humanize and emphasize the filthiness and insignificance of the common people. Crane begins using animal ... Read more

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