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"Acclaimed by critic Alfred Kazin as ""a powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York,"" Stephen Crane's novel remains a classic of American literary naturalism and a realistic portrayal of slum life at the end of the 19th century. This edition reproduces the text of the 1893 first edition, rather than the later bowdlerized version."
"Acclaimed by critic Alfred Kazin as ""a powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York,"" Stephen Crane's novel remains a classic of American literary naturalism and a realistic portrayal of slum life at the end of the 19th century. This edition reproduces the text of the 1893 first edition, rather than the later bowdlerized version."