| About the Series | p. v |
| About This Volume | p. ix |
| List of Illustrations | p. xvii |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York): The Complete Text | p. 1 |
| Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background | p. 3 |
| Chronology of Crane's Life and Times | p. 24 |
| A Note on the Text | p. 34 |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) [1893 Edition] | p. 36 |
| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York): Cultural Contexts | p. 95 |
| In Darkest New York | p. 97 |
| Tenement Life | p. 102 |
| "A Hot Wave among the Poor" | p. 102 |
| "The New Uncle Tom's Cabin" | p. 106 |
| "The Tenement-House Problem" | p. 112 |
| "Tenement-House Morality" | p. 120 |
| "The Problem of the Children" | p. 128 |
| From "Life in New York Tenement-Houses" | p. 133 |
| Shops, Saloons, Concert Halls | p. 145 |
| From "The Bowery" | p. 145 |
| "The Bowery at Night" | p. 159 |
| "Where 'De Gang' Hears the Band Play" | p. 165 |
| "The Beer Gardens" | p. 170 |
| From "The Saloon in Society" | p. 174 |
| "Tempting Poor Women: They Buy Beer and Have It Charged as 'Potatoes'" | p. 183 |
| From Metropolitan Life Unveiled; or the Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities | p. 187 |
| The Plight of the Working Woman | p. 195 |
| Working Women from the Perspective of Others | p. 199 |
| "The Song of the Shirt" | p. 199 |
| "The Working Girls of New York" | p. 202 |
| "Queens of the Shop, the Workroom, and the Tenement" | p. 208 |
| "Senate Testimony from 'Jennie June'" | p. 217 |
| "Store Girls: Their Fascinations, Foibles and Temptations" | p. 226 |
| "The Woes of the New York Working-Girl" | p. 233 |
| Working Women Tell Their Own Stories | p. 243 |
| "In Employment Offices: Trials of Women Who Look There for Work" | p. 244 |
| "Counter Trials: The Shop-Girl Speaks" | p. 250 |
| "The Song of the Shirt: How the Finisher Lives" | p. 252 |
| "The Embroiderer: Quick Work and Scanty Wages" | p. 254 |
| "The Scarf-Maker" | p. 256 |
| "The Lace-Maker" | p. 258 |
| "The Black-Borderer: A Solemn Kind of Work" | p. 260 |
| "The Painted Cohorts" | p. 263 |
| From The History of Prostitution | p. 266 |
| "Street Girls" | p. 273 |
| "Prostitution" | p. 276 |
| From Metropolitan Life Unveiled | p. 285 |
| "Report on Prostitution and the Working Woman" | p. 289 |
| "The Case of Rose Haggerty" | p. 294 |
| Realism and Beyond | p. 302 |
| Critics and Theorists | p. 305 |
| From Aesthetics | p. 305 |
| From The Art of Fiction | p. 311 |
| "The Future of Fiction" | p. 316 |
| "The Justification of Slum Stories" | p. 327 |
| From "New York Low Life in Fiction" | p. 333 |
| The Fallen Woman and Slum Fiction | p. 338 |
| From The Two Detectives; or, The Fortunes of a Bowery Girl | p. 338 |
| From We and Our Neighbors | p. 345 |
| From The Evil That Men Do | p. 353 |
| "Minnie Kelsey's Wedding" | p. 361 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 370 |
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