Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Stephen Crane's first novel addressed an unpopular theme; Resolutely with his honest, brutally realistic interpretation of the dark side of the urban New York, Maggie: a girl from the streets was initially rejected by publishers who consider the subject matter appropriate for publication. Crane, twenty-one, was forced to publish the novel at his expense in 1893; Even then, he thought it was advisable to use a pseudonym, Johnston Smith. It was only in 1896, with the success of Crane's masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, that Crane's editor agreed to publish a revised version of Maggie. But if Maggie was not appreciated at the time of publication, and even virtually unnoticed, with the exception of some favorable criticism from some influential critics, including William Dean Howells, it has since been recognized as a powerful social novel and a profoundly important Contribution to American literature. In 1871, when Stephen Crane was born, the generation of writers who composed the first great novels of the United States, a generation that included Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, had died or had passed its heyday. Crane reached maturity in what is known as the Golden Age (at least in the northeastern United States,