Quotes from book
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane . The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The work was considered risqué by publishers because of its literary realism and strong themes. Crane – who was 22 years old at the time – financed the book's publication himself, although the original 1893 edition was printed under the pseudonym Johnston Smith. After the success of 1895's The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie was reissued in 1896 with considerable changes and re-writing. The story is followed by George's Mother.


Stephen Crane photo

Similar authors

Stephen Crane photo
Stephen Crane 42
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist 1871–1900
Ambrose Bierce photo
Ambrose Bierce 204
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu…
Ivan Turgenev photo
Ivan Turgenev 7
Russian writer
Alphonse Karr photo
Alphonse Karr 3
French critic, journalist, and novelist
Gustave Flaubert photo
Gustave Flaubert 98
French writer (1821–1880)
Walt Whitman photo
Walt Whitman 181
American poet, essayist and journalist
George Eliot photo
George Eliot 300
English novelist, journalist and translator
Jan Neruda photo
Jan Neruda 7
Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist and writer
Robert Louis Stevenson photo
Robert Louis Stevenson 118
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
Guy De Maupassant photo
Guy De Maupassant 59
French writer