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  <title><![CDATA[Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classic)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, &lt;b&gt;The Red Badge of Courage&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant &lt;b&gt;Maggie: A Girl of the Streets&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;finally printing it himself in 1893.&lt;br&gt;Condemned and misunderstood during Crane&amp;#8217;s lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty child of the Bowery has since been recognized as a landmark work in American fiction.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now Crane&amp;#8217;s great short novel of life in turn-of-the-century New York is published in its original form, along with four of Crane&amp;#8217;s best short stories&amp;#8211;&lt;i&gt;The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Monster, &lt;/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;The Open Boat&amp;#8211;&lt;/i&gt;stories of such remarkable power and clarity that they stand among the finest short stories ever written by an American.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard-core working class short fiction from one of the great originals of turn of the century neo-realism. &quot;Maggie&quot; reminds me of Tom Waits' &quot;Swordfishtrombones&quot;  and &quot;Rain Dogs&quot; with its scenes of tenement melancholy.<br/>Also included is &quot;The Monster&quot; about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16568353">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Couldn't appreciate &quot;Maggie...&quot; much when it was assigned reading in high school, but returning to it later in life I was pretty enthralled. Final lines of the story land like a punch to the jaw; I suspect I missed the conclusion's brutal cynicism when reading it as a teenager. My growing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41098965">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Published by 21, famous by 24, dead by 28, it's really no surprise that Crane's fiction was ambitious or depressing. His word economy (and plot economy) was almost revolutionary in his time, and so even his worst stories are quick and relatively good reads. This volume contains some of his better sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4679233">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried to read this. I couldn't. It kind of sucks. Even if it was this boy-genius's first (and, ahem, self-published) novel and I should be educated enough to get around the impossibly phonetic dialog and stilted plot. I mean, hey, one of America's first real naturalistic novels! Yay! But, no. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8025194">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7686072">
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    <body><![CDATA[I like that Maggie is described as a girl of the streets for the whole novel, but she is only a prostitute in the last few paragraphs. It helps to advance the theme that society made her who she is. I don't necesarily agree with the cop-out excuse that society is to blame for individual's bad behavi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7686072">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 05 22:30:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually really loved this story when I read it for class in undergrad.  And then when I was doing my thesis research in grad school I found out that Stephen Crane was an ass and that the book is full of immigrant=animal symbolism.  But I still like the story, underhanded nativism and all, because...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14696167">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm afraid I have a really hard time getting into 19th century American literature. If you like that sort of thing, you'll enjoy this book, but I thought it was depressing - and not in an entertaining way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great efficient classic, puts the perils of the Industrial Age into perspective.  Sucked to be Irish in the US of A.]]></body>
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