{"product_id":"9781593082482","title":"Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York (Barnes \u0026 Noble Classics Series)","description":"\u003ci\u003eMaggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings about New York\u003c\/i\u003e, by \u003cb\u003eStephen Crane\u003c\/b\u003e, is part of the \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eseries, 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 \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographies of the authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFootnotes and endnotes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComments by other famous authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStudy questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliographies for further reading \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndices \u0026amp; Glossaries, when appropriate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. \u003ci\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics \u003c\/i\u003epulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten before but published after \u003ci\u003eThe Red Badge of Courage\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eStephen Crane\u003c\/b\u003e’s \u003ci\u003eMaggie: A Girl of the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublishers 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 \u003ci\u003eMaggie\u003c\/i\u003e—the author’s favorite among his works—helped to shape the writers that followed him and begin the era of literary naturalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Tine\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eState of Grace and Black Market\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written for a variety of periodicals and magazines—from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031137992944,"sku":"9781593082482","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593082482_p0.jpg?v=1763812652","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593082482","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}