"Adrian Hunter's elegant introduction and judicious selection of essential contextual documents by Crane and his contemporaries make this edition of Maggie wonderfully useful for students, teachers, and interested readers." -- Michael Robertson, The College of New Jersey, author of Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature

"Adrian Hunter's introduction is elegantly written and solidly researched. Many less perceptive critics have tended to apply broad labels to Crane and his work, but Hunter has provided a wonderfully nuanced and sophisticated analysis of this often neglected text and the complex social and historical context from which it emerges. The edition is intelligently organized and carefully annotated; I found the appendices on reform movements and on slum fiction particularly useful." -- Susan Castillo, King's College, London