Dec 26, 2009

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Crane's novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets depicts the embattled lives of people surviving in the New York inner city and the brutalizing effects of poverty, ignorance, and drunkenness on their lives. The book has been labeled a work of naturalistic fiction; like £mile Zola, a nineteenth-century French naturalist writer, Crane suggests that people are victims of their environments.

Following up on the success of The Red Badge of Courage, Crane wrote The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War (1896). Possibly the most interesting story...