Stephen Crane

With two parts and seventeen stories, Stephen Crane's The Open Boat and Other Stories is an eclectic collection that stuns with its use of naturalism and angst. In the first part, titled Minor Conflicts, Crane shares eight works of short fiction. Among these is The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky, a tense drama that explores themes of change with the portrayal of a Texas marshal who is saved from gunfight by his bride. Death and the Child follows a...

Originally published pseudonymously in 1893, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" follows the tragic tale of Maggie and her life in the harsh streets and tenements of the New York City Bowery district. Initially rejected by publishers for being viewed as too brutal and accurate in its descriptions of poverty and female sexuality, Stephen Crane published the work at his own expense. Following the success of Crane's novel "The Red Badge of Courage," this...

Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories-among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story-that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic...

Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories-among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story-that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic...

Seven vivid, sensitively written tales of the Civil War by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Includes fine title story plus "Three Miraculous Soldiers," "A Mystery of Heroism," "A Gray Sleeve," "An Indiana Campaign," "An Episode of the War" and "The Veteran."

Steven Crane is perhaps famous as author of The Red Badge of Courage, the quintessential Civil War classic. However, Crane wrote several other stories involving this monumental conflict. Six of them are gathered together in this volume. They include "A Mystery of Heroism," "A Gray Sleeve," "Three Miraculous Soldiers," "The Little Regiment," "An Indiana Campaign," and "The Veteran," which features Henry Fleming, protagonist of The Red Badge of Courage,...

This collection of short stories drawn from Crane's experiences as a correspondent during the Spanish-American War was posthumously published in 1900-the author penned the dedication just three months before he died. Dramatic, ironic, filled with telling details and local color, these stories remain a testament to Crane's talent for capturing the human side of war.

As Horace walks home from school, his hands ensconced in a pair of new red mittens, boys from the neighbourhood entice him into a snowball fight. There's just one problem-his mother has told him to come home straight away, and to keep his mittens dry. Horace retreats before a chorus of teasing, but he cannot quite bring himself to leave the scene of battle. "His New Mittens" is a heartwarming and hilarious story about mothers and sons and "all the...

The lives of Henry Johnson, an African-American coachman, and Jimmie Trescott, the son of Henry's employer, are irretrievably and tragically altered by a fire at the Trescott home. Although Henry saves Jimmie, Henry becomes disfigured in mind and body by an explosion in the doctor's lab. In this moving story, author Stephen Crane asks, what is truly monstrous-the deformed man or the prejudice and intolerance of the townspeople? HarperPerennial...

Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories-among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story-that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic...