Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other New York Writings
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other New York Writings

Author: Stephen Crane

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2001-03-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0375756892

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This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor. It remains both powerful, severe, and harshly comic (in Alfred Kazin's words) and a masterpiece of modern American prose. 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.

The Blue Hotel
The Blue Hotel

Author: Stephen Crane

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-11-19

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13:

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This carefully crafted ebook: " The Blue Hotel + The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky + The Open Boat (3 famous stories by Stephen Crane)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This omnibus contains the 3 famous stories by Stephen Crane: The Blue Hotel The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Open Boat Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet who is often called the first modern American writer. Crane was a correspondent in the Greek-Turkish War and the Spanish American War, penning numerous articles, war reports and sketches.

Prose and Poetry
Prose and Poetry

Author: Stephen Crane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 1379

ISBN-13: 9781579580254

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Crane's complete novels are accompanied by his poetry and, arranged by place and time, his short stories, sketches and newspaper articles.

Burning Boy
Burning Boy

Author: Paul Auster

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 1250235847

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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

On Freedom
On Freedom

Author: Maggie Nelson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1473581087

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'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAING What can freedom really mean? In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about the concept in ways that are responsive to our divided world. Drawing on pop culture, theory and the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, she follows freedom - with all its complexities - through four realms: art, sex, drugs and climate. On Freedom offers a bold new perspective on the challenging times in which we live. 'Tremendously energising' Guardian 'This provocative meditation...shows Nelson at her most original and brilliant' New York Times 'Nelson is such a friend to her reader, such brilliant company... Exhilarating' Literary Review * A New York Times Notable Book * * A Guardian and TLS 'Books of 2021' Pick *

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Author: Stephen Crane

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2006-09-11

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781551115979

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First published in 1893, when Stephen Crane was only twenty-one years old, Maggie is the harrowing tale of a young woman’s fall into prostitution and destitution in New York City’s notorious Bowery slum. In dazzlingly vivid prose and with a sexual candour remarkable for his day, Crane depicts an urban sub-culture awash with alcohol and patrolled by the swaggering gangland “tough.” Presented here with its companion piece George’s Mother and a selection of Crane’s other Bowery stories, this edition of Maggie includes a detailed introduction that places the novel in its social, cultural, and literary contexts. The appendices provide an unrivalled range of documentary sources covering such topics as religious and civic reform writing, slum fiction, the “new journalism,” and literary realism and naturalism. An up-to-date bibliography of scholarly work on Crane is also included.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Author: Stephen Crane

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13:

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In 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,' Stephen Crane penetrates the dark underbelly of late 19th-century New York to paint a devastating portrait of young Maggie's descent from innocence to ruin. Crane employs stark realism combined with a naturalist's attention to detail, yielding a narrative both brusque and empathetic, immersed in its milieu yet critically aware of broader societal injustices that entrap individuals like Maggie. This early American naturalist work offers a narrative that is unflinching in its depiction of the consequences of poverty and isolation, serving as a potent example of a burgeoning literary style that sought to render life with scientific precision while delving into the deterministic forces shaping individual destinies. Stephen Crane's experiences in urban environments deeply colored his literary output, and nowhere is this more evident than in Maggie. With a keen journalistic eye, originally fostered by his work as a reporter, Crane delves into the grim realities of urban poverty and vice, exploring themes that are as resonant today as they were at the time of publication. His innovative approach to writing, eschewing traditional romantic embellishments in favor of raw authenticity, marked Crane as a disruptor in the literary landscape of his time, presaging the modernist movements that would follow. 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets' is a compelling read for anyone interested in the origins of American realism and naturalism in literature. While the novella's themes are heavy, Crane's mastery of language and intimate portrayal of human suffering makes Maggie's plight deeply affecting. This book comes highly recommended not only for its historical significance but for its haunting and poignant examination of the human spirit's endurance in the face of insurmountable odds.