Features the tale of a pretty young girl driven to brutal excesses by poverty and loneliness, and includes four additional short stories by Crane.
Portrays the brutal effects of the poverty and loneliness of slum life.
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...
During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. This collection of stories is replete with lively dialogue, ominous atmospheres, dry humour and graphic incidents.
This volume includes "George's Mother" and eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
The text of this edition presents Maggie: A Girl of the Streets as Crane wrote it.
A novel for secondary school English classes with great writing and important themes.
This edition includes Maggie and George's Mother, Crane's other Bowery tales, and the most comprehensive available selection of Crane's New York journalism. All texts in this volume are presented in their definitive versions.
This comprehensive collection shows why Stephen Crane has come to be recognized as one of the most innovative and diversely talented writers of his generation, even though he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight.
"The Blue Hotel" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story first appeared in the 1899 collection entitled The Monster and Other Stories.
Originally published in McClure's Magazine, it was written in England. The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter, who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern bride.