Today is the birthday of Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Most of us are assigned Crane’s best known novel The Red Badge of Courage in school to read. Today, I’d like to plug (as essential reading, really for New York history buffs), Crane’s first novel (novella really), Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893). Maggie is considered the first work of American naturalism. […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:50AM on November 1, 2013