Maggie: a Girl of the Streets and Selected Stories
by Crane, Stephen
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. Very Good+. 1983. Hardcover. Bound in full genuine leather with 22kt gold decoration. Luxury features include gilded page edges, a sewn-in satin bookmark, moire endpapers, raised bands on the spine, and archival quality paper that is sewn (not glued) into the binding. Part of Franklin Library's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. Small indentation on top page edge gilt. Side page edge gilt has several long scratches in it, but no loss of gilt. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 436 pages .
Synopsis
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane. It depicts a poor family in a New York neighborhood, whose parents are drunk and abusive. As the children grow up, Maggie attempts to better herself, but is defeated by her desperate surrounds and the poverty of humanity surrounding her.
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69186
- Title
- Maggie: a Girl of the Streets and Selected Stories
- Author
- Crane, Stephen
- Illustrator
- Thomas B. Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1983
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