“A man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his vision—he is merely responsible for his quality of personal honesty.” In the course of his tragically abbreviated career, Stephen Crane (1871–1900) saw things that his contemporaries preferred to overlook—the low life of New York’s Irish slums; the tedium, brutality, and chaos that were the true conditions of the Civil War; the ambiguous contract that binds a terrified man to his killer and the damned to their human judges. He communicated what he saw with the same laconic factuality that characterized his journalism and, in the process, laid the foundations for the unblinking realism of Hemingway and Dos Passos. The Portable Stephen Crane allows us to appreciate the full scope and power of this writer’s vision. It contains three complete novels—Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, George’s Mother, and Crane’s masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage; nineteen short stories and sketches, including “The Blue Hotel” and “The Open Boat,” a barely fictionalized account of his own escape from shipwreck while covering the Cuban revolt against Spain; the previously unpublished essay “Above All Things”; letters and poems, plus a critical essay and notes by the noted Crane scholar Joseph Katz.
David Halliburton's book is a richly textured study of the complete writings of Stephen Crane. Offering close readings of the works within a broad framework, Halliburton sets out to explore the imaginative world Crane created in his total œuvre of fiction, poetry and reportage.
Little Jim was, for the time, engine Number 36, and he was making the run between Syracuse and Rochester. He was fourteen minutes behind time, and the throttle was wide open. In consequence, when he swung around the curve at the flower-bed, a wheel of his cart destroyed a peony. Number 36 slowed down at once and looked guiltily at his father, who was mowing the lawn. The doctor had his back to this accident, and he continued to pace slowly to and fro, pushing the mower. Jim dropped the tongue of the cart. He looked at his father and at the broken flower. Finally he went to the peony and tried to stand it on its pins, resuscitated, but the spine of it was hurt, and it would only hang limply from his hand. Jim could do no reparation. He looked again towards his father. He went on to the lawn, very slowly, and kicking wretchedly at the turf. Presently his father came along with the whirring machine, while the sweet, new grass blades spun from the knives. In a low voice, Jim said, "Pa
This omnibus contains the 3 famous stories by Stephen Crane: The Blue Hotel The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Open Boat Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet who is often called the first modern American writer. Crane was a correspondent in the Greek-Turkish War and the Spanish American War, penning numerous articles, war reports and sketches.
This posthumously published collection of stories, sketches, and articles includes the story "An Episode of War," one of Crane's most important works, plus "The Reluctant Voyagers," "Spitzbergen Tales," "Wyoming Valley Tales," "London Impressions," "New York Sketches," "Irish Notes," "Sullivan County Sketches," and much more.
For the first time all 112 of Stephen Crane’s short stories and sketches—including several that have not been included in any previous collection and two that are now in print for the first time—have been brought together in one volume. Critics call Stephen Crane, who is best known for his Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, the first “modern” American writer. Crane was only twenty-eight when he died, but his work had a profound influence on American letters. He helped to kill sentimentality in American writing, giving this country’s fiction renewed strength and dignity as an art form. Crane is considered the American counterpart of such European Nationalists as Zola, Tolstoy, and Flaubert. He refused to bow to the conventions of the day or to popular taste, but wrote about life as he saw it in the closing years of the nineteenth century. And “honest vision of life” was the foundation stone of his artistic aims, and so he sought first-hand experiences and personal involvement in his themes. He lived the life of “The Open Boat” before he wrote the story. His stories of war and conflict, such as “A Mystery of Heroism” and “Virtue in War,” reflect his experiences as a war correspondent. Crane strove for originality in his writing; “his style—tense, darting, abrupt, ironic—blends perfectly with an impressionistic technique to give emotional, psychological, and symbolic significance to a series of astutely observed and richly colored episodes.” The stories and sketches that were a product of his one-man literary revolution are as “modern” today as ever. This collection includes an authoritative introduction by the editor, in which he evaluates the artistic significance of Crane’s work. The stories ad sketches are presented in chronological order and have been carefully edited to ensure that they are in their original form.
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The American novelist Stephen Crane is now recognised by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Having won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel 'The Red Badge of Courage', Crane was prolific throughout his short life, creating notable works in the Realist and American Naturalism traditions. Now readers can enjoy Crane's complete published works for the first in publishing history in a single volume. This comprehensive eBook presents numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and a wealth of bonus material. (Version 1)Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Crane's life and worksConcise introductions to the novels and other textsALL 6 novels, with individual contents tablesIncludes the scarce novel GEORGE'S MOTHER, available in no other digital collectionImages of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original textsExcellent formatting of the textsAll the short story collections, including the rare THE OPEN BOAT AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE, appearing in this digital collection for the first timeSpecial chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short storiesEasily locate the short stories you want to readIncludes Crane's posthumously published non-fiction work GREAT BATTLES OF THE WORLD, fully illustratedSpecial 'Contextual Pieces' section, with many essays and reviews evaluating Crane's contribution to literature and his life and timesScholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: some rare uncollected short stories, poems and news reports cannot appear in this collection due to copyright restrictions. When these texts enter the public domain, they will be added to the collection as a free update. Please visit delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titlesCONTENTS: The NovelsMAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETSTHE RED BADGE OF COURAGEGEORGE'S MOTHERTHE THIRD VIOLETACTIVE SERVICETHE O'RUDDY The Short Story CollectionsTHE LITTLE REGIMENT AND OTHER EPISODES FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WARTHE OPEN BOAT AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURETHE MONSTER AND OTHER STORIESWHILOMVILLE STORIESWOUNDS IN THE RAIN: WAR STORIESTHE MONSTER The Short StoriesLIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Poetry CollectionsTHE BLACK RIDERS AND OTHER LINESWAR IS KIND The Non-FictionGREAT BATTLES OF THE WORLD Contextual PiecesLIST OF ESSAYS AND REVIEWS Please visit delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
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