American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1107 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*Maggie: A Girl of the Streets*
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The idea
Published at his own expense in eighteen ninety-three, Maggie follows a girl in the New York slums destroyed by poverty, drink and the respectability of the people around her. Crane refuses to moralize, which is why publishers refused it and why it matters.
In practice
A slum, described without a sermon.
Where people slip
He had to publish it himself.
Your place on the trail
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