This edition reprints the first published version, that of 1893.Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in "A Noteon the Text."? Footnotes indicate changes in wording Crane made for the1896 edition and explain slang expressions and customs of the day.? Mapsof the novel’s New York City locales are also provided."Backgrounds and Sources" includes nonfictional accounts of urban lifeby Jacob Riis and others from which Crane drew, as well as discussionsof Crane’s literary sources"The Author and the Novel" traces the history of the novel'scomposition and revision.Contemporary American reviews of the 1893 Maggie and American andEnglish reviews of the 1896 edition focus on the historical importanceof the work, the values and tastes of the 1890s, and Crane’s modernism.The modern critical essays are by John Berryman, Charles Child Walcutt,William Bysshe Stein, Joseph X. Brennan, Janet Overmyer, Donald Pizer,Joseph Katz, Eric Solomon, Jay Martin, Donald B. Gibson, Arno Karlen,Katherine G. Simoneaux, Frank Bergon, Hershel Parker, Brian Higgins,and Thomas A. Gullason.