Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

de Stephen Crane (auteur), Robert Tine (introduction), Robert Tine (introduction et notes)

Maison d'édition : Barnes & Noble Classics

juin 2009

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings about New York, by Stephen Crane, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

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Written before but published after The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets offers a stark image of the underbelly of urban American life at the end of the nineteenth century. Maggie Johnson, a lovely innocent too slight to carry the weight of poverty, dreams of escaping New York’s Bowery and the casual cruelty of her alcoholic family. After her younger brother dies, she runs off with Pete, a bartender with pretensions to wealth and culture. But Pete himself is easily seduced by the seemingly sophisticated Nellie, and Maggie finds herself abandoned in the unforgiving metropolis.

Publishers feared that Crane’s portrait of brutal fathers swilling away their lives in cheap bars, drunken mothers raging at terrified children, and ruined young women walking the streets, would be more than their readers could bear. But Crane’s impressionistic style and thematic intensity won the day, and Maggie—the author’s favorite among his works—helped to shape the writers that followed him and begin the era of literary naturalism.

This edition also includes the short novel George’s Mother, plus “A Night at the Millionaire’s Club,” “Opium’s Varied Dreams,” “When a Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers,” and several other of Crane’s masterful short stories.

Robert Tine is the author of six novels, including State of Grace and Black Market. He has written for a variety of periodicals and magazines—from the New York Times to Newsweek.

Auteur

Stephen Crane (auteur)

Quatorzième enfant d'un pasteur méthodiste, Stephen Crane est né en 1871 à Newark. Il publie ses premières nouvelles à 20 ans – il en écrira plus de deux cents. Jeune reporter, il explore les bas-fonds de New York et en tire un court roman, Maggie, fille des rues (1893). Mais c'est L'Insigne rouge du courage (1895), récit antihéroïque d'un épisode de la guerre civile, qui fait sa brusque renommée. En 1899 paraissent son second recueil de poésie, War is Kind , ainsi que son dernier roman, Active Service , inspiré de son activité de correspondant pendant les guerres gréco-turque (1897) et hispano-américaine (1898). Il meurt de tuberculose avant trente ans, en 1900, dans un sanatorium allemand. Henry James le tenait pour " un immense génie " et H. G. Wells le qualifiera en 1915 de " meilleur écrivain de langue anglaise des cinquante dernières années ".