| Maggie Contributor(s): Crane, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1573920371 ISBN-13: 9781573920377 Publisher: Prometheus Books OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1995 Annotation: The first social expose in fiction to render "how the other half lives", Stephen Crane's Maggie is one of the most powerful depictions of the urban poor of its time. As a reviewer stated shortly after the work's appearance in 1893: "Maggie is a study of life in the slums of New York, and of the hopeless struggle of a girl against the horrible conditions of her environment; and so bitter is the struggle, so black the environment, so inevitable is the end, that the reader feels a chill at his heart". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95009642 |
| Series: Literary Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 5.54" W x 8.48" (0.27 lbs) 90 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 50676 Reading Level: 8.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first social expose in fiction to render "how the other half lives," Stephen Crane's Maggie is one of the most powerful depictions of the urban poor of its time. As a reviewer stated shortly after the work's appearance in 1893: "Maggie is a study of life in the slums of New York, and of the hopeless struggle of a girl against the horrible conditions of her environment; and so bitter is the struggle, so black the environment, so inevitable is the end, that the reader feels a chill at his heart." |