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Thisharrowingtaleofayounggirlintheslumsisasearingportrayalofturn-of-the-centuryNewYork,andStephenCrane'smostinnovativework.Publishedin1893,whentheauthorwasjusttwenty-one,itbrokenewgroundwithitsvividcharacters,itsbrutalnaturalism,anditsempathicrenderingofthelivesofthepoor.Itremainsbothpowerful,severe,andharshlycomic(inAlfredKazin'swords)andamasterpieceofmodernAmericanprose.ThiseditionincludesMaggieandGeorge'sMother,Crane'sotherBowerytales,andthemostcomprehensiveavailableselectionofCrane'sNewYorkjournalism.Alltextsinthisvolumearepresentedintheirdefinitiveversions.