Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York
Author: Stephen Crane
“A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago.”—Alfred Kazin.,,,Although fellow novelists William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland immediately recognized genius in the twenty-one-year-old author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, in 1893 most readers were unwilling to accept its unconventional theme and were un….Read More
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