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From: The Spectator
Date: 20070825
Author:Dennison, Mathew

HOTEL DE DREAM by Edmund White Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 226, ISBN 9780747590590 £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

Seven years before his untimely death from consumption at the age of 28, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. It was 1893 and the time was out of joint for a grimly realistic fictionalisation of the life of a prostitute.

Nineteenth-century sensibilities recoiled.

Crane enjoyed a succès de scandale, and established himself at the forefront of American literary modernism.

Fellow American author Edmund White -- himself no stranger to the succès de ...

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