Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other New York WritingsBy: Stephen Crane Series: Modern Library Classics 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)