New Releases by Stephen Crane

This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane''s most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor. It remains both powerful, severe, and harshly comic (in Alfred Kazin''s words) and a masterpiece of modern American prose. This edition includes Maggie and George''s Mother, Crane''s other Bowery tales, and the most comprehensive available selection of Crane''s New York journalism. All texts in this volume are presented in their definitive versions.

Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man''s experience fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane''s reading of popular descriptions of battle. This volume also includes the short stories "The OpenBoat"(1898), "The Monster"(1899), and "The Blue Hotel." The editors explore Crane''s work from a fresh critical perspective, focusing on his role as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy, and his social as well as literary revisionism.

Maggie is an astonishing novel of social realism, which parallels many of today''s ills. Set in the urban squalor of New York in the 1890s, it follows the careers of the innocent Maggie and her brother Jimmie, children of brutal and drunken parents. It is a tour-de-force equal to The Red Badge of Courage.