Stephen Crane Books In Order

Novels

  1. Maggie (1893)
  2. The Red Badge Of Courage (1895)
  3. George’s Mother (1896)
  4. The Third Violet (1897)
  5. Active Service (1899)
  6. The O’Ruddy (1903)

Omnibus

  1. Three Great Novels of the Civil War (1994)
  2. Four Classic American Novels (2017)

Collections

  1. The Little Regiment (1896)
  2. The Open Boat (1898)
  3. The Blue Hotel (1899)
  4. The Monster (1899)
  5. Whilomville Stories (1900)
  6. Wounds In The Rain (1900)
  7. Last Words (1902)
  8. Men, Women and Boats (1921)
  9. Great Short Works of Stephen Crane (2004)

Non fiction

  1. Great Battles Of The World (1901)
  2. Letters (1960)

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Stephen Crane Books Overview

Maggie

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was the first major naturalistic novel in America. This edition reprints the first published version, that of 1893. Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in ‘A Note on the Text.’ Footnotes indicate changes in wording Crane made for the 1896 edition and explain slang expressions and customs of the day. Maps of the novel’s New York City locales are also provided. ‘Backgrounds and Sources’ includes nonfictional accounts of urban life by Jacob Riis and others from which Crane drew, as well as discussions of Crane s literary sources ‘The Author and the Novel’ traces the history of the novel’s composition and revision. Contemporary American reviews of the 1893 Maggie and American and English reviews of the 1896 edition focus on the historical importance of the work, the values and tastes of the 1890s, and Crane s modernism. The modern critical essays are by John Berryman, Charles Child Walcutt, William Bysshe Stein, Joseph X. Brennan, Janet Overmyer, Donald Pizer, Joseph Katz, Eric Solomon, Jay Martin, Donald B. Gibson, Arno Karlen, Katherine G. Simoneaux, Frank Bergon, Hershel Parker, Brian Higgins, and Thomas A. Gullason.

The Red Badge Of Courage

The Red Badge Of Courage and Selected Short Fiction, by Stephen Crane, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Young Henry Fleming dreams of finding glory and honor as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Yet he also harbors a hidden fear about how he may react when the horror and bloodshed of battle begin. Fighting the enemy without and the terror within, Fleming must prove himself and find his own meaning of valor. Unbelievable as it may seem, Stephen Crane had never been a member of any army nor had taken part in any battle when he wrote The Red Badge Of Courage. But upon its publication in 1895, when Crane was only twenty four, Red Badge was heralded as a new kind of war novel, marked by astonishing insight into the true psychology of men under fire. Along with the seminal short stories included in this volume The Open Boat, The Veteran, and The Men in the Storm The Red Badge Of Courage unleashed Crane’s deeply influential impressionistic style. Richard Fusco has been an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in nineteenth century American literature and in short story narrative theory, he has published on a variety of American, British, and Continental literary figures.

The Third Violet

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV One day Hollander! said : ‘ There are forty two people at Hemlock Inn, I think. Fifteen are middle aged ladies of the most aggressive respectability. They have come here for no discernible purpose save to get where they can see people and be displeased at them. They sit in a large group on that porch, and take measurements of character as importantly as if they constituted the jury of heaven. When I arrived at Hemlock Inn, I at once cast my eye search ingly about me. Perceiving this assemblage, I cried, ‘ There they are!’ Barely waiting to change my clothes, I made for this formidable body and endeavoured to conciliate it. Almost every day I sit down among them and lie like a machine. Privately Ibelieve they should be hanged, but publicly I glisten with admiration. Do you know, there is one of ’em who I know has not moved from the inn in eight days, and this morning I said to her, ‘ These long walks in the clear mountain air are doing you a world of good.’ And I keep continually saying, ‘Your frankness is so charming!’ Because of the great law of universal balance, I know that this illustrious corps will believe good of themselves with exactly the same readiness that they will believe ill of others. So I ply them with it. In consequence, the worst they ever say of me is, ‘ Isn’t that Mr. Hollanden a peculiar man ?’ And you know, my boy, that’s not so bad for a literary person.’ After some thought he added: ‘ Good people, too. Good wives, good mothers, and everything of that kind, you know. But conservative, very conservative. Hate anything radical. Cannot endure it. Were that way themselves once, you know. They hit the mark, too, sometimes. Such general volleyings can’t fail to hit everything. May the devil fly away with them!’ Hawker regarded the group nervo…

Active Service

Stephen Crane 1871 1900 was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage 1895. The novel introduced for most readers Crane’s strikingly original prose, an intensely rendered mix of impressionism, naturalism and symbolism. He lived in New York City a bohemian life where he observed the poor in the Bowery slums as research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 1893, a milestone in uncompromising realism and in the early development of literary naturalism. He became shipwrecked in route to Cuba in early 1897, an experience which he later transformed into his short story masterpiece, The Open Boat 1898. Crane’s poetry, which he called ‘lines’ rather than poems, was also strikingly new in its minimalist meter and rhyme. It employed symbolic imagery in order to communicate at times heavy handed irony and paradox. Other works include Active Service 1899, The Monster 1899, The Blue Hotel 1899, Whilomville Stories 1900 and Wounds in the Rain 1900.

The O’Ruddy

Stephen Crane 1871 1900 was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage 1895. He lived in New York City a bohemian life where he observed the poor in the Bowery slums as research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 1893. He became shipwrecked in route to Cuba in early 1897, an experience which he later transformed into his short story masterpiece, The Open Boat 1898. Other works include: Active Service 1899, Whilomville Stories 1900 and The O’Ruddy with Robert Barr 1903. Robert Barr 1850 1912 was a British Canadian novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at the Normal School of Toronto, Canada, was headmaster of the Central School, Windsor, Ontario, and in 1876 became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature ‘Luke Sharp. ‘ In 1881 he removed to London, to establish there the weekly English edition of the Free Press, and in 1892 founded The Idler magazine. Among his works are: From Whose Bourne 1896 and Jennie Baxter, Journalist 1899.

Four Classic American Novels

An adulteress, a runaway boy, a terrified soldier, and a maltreated sailor all the heroes of these must read novels have become part of our American literary heritage.

The Little Regiment

From ‘The Little Regiment‘: Bursting through a smoke wave, the scampering, unformed bunches came upon the wreck of the brigade that had preceded them, a floundering mass stopped afar from the hill by the swirling volleys. It was as if a necromancer had suddenly shown them a picture of the fate which awaited them; but the line with muscular spasm hurled itself over this wreckage and onward, until men were stumbling amid the relics of other assaults, the point where the fire from the ridge consumed. The men, panting, perspiring, with crazed faces, tried to push against it; but it was as if they had come to a wall. The wave halted, shuddered in an agony from the quick struggle of its two desires, then toppled, and broke into a fragmentary thing which has no name. Veterans could now at last be distinguished from recruits. The new regiments were instantly gone, lost, scattered, as if they never had been. But the sweeping failure of the charge, the battle, could not make the veterans forget their business. With a last throe, the band of maniacs drew itself up and blazed a volley at the hill, insignificant to those iron entrenchments, but nevertheless expressing that singular final despair which enables men coolly to defy the walls of a city of death. Also included in this volume are ‘Three Miraculous Soldiers,’ ‘A Mystery of Heroism,’ ‘An Indiana Campaign,’ ‘A Grey Sleeve,’ and ‘The Veteran.’

The Open Boat

A Tale intended to be after the Fact. Being the exrerience of four men from the sunk steamer ‘Commodore’
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None of them knew the colour of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colours of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.
Many a man ought to have a bath tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth top was a problem in small boat navigation,
The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches of gunwale Which separated him from the ocean. His sleeves were rolled

Table of Contents

Minor Conflicts; Page; The Open Boat i; A Man and Some Others 4 ; The Bride comes to Yellow Sky 65; The Wise Men 85; The Five White Mice 107; Flanagan and His Short Filibustering; Adventure 129; Horses 155; Death and the Child 175; Part II; Midnight Sketches; An Experiment in Misery 211; The Men in the Storm 227; The Duel that was not Fought 239; An Ominous Baby 251; A Great Mistake 259; An Eloquence of Grief 265; The Auction 271; The Pace of Youth 279; A Detail 297

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The Blue Hotel

Stephen Crane 1871-1900 was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage 1895. The novel introduced for most readers Crane’s strikingly original prose, an intensely rendered mix of impressionism, naturalism and symbolism. He lived in New York City a bohemian life where he observed the poor in the Bowery slums as research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 1893, a milestone in uncompromising realism and in the early development of literary naturalism. He became shipwrecked in route to Cuba in early 1897, an experience which he later transformed into his short story masterpiece, The Open Boat 1898. Crane’s poetry, which he called ‘lines’ rather than poems, was also strikingly new in its minimalist meter and rhyme. It employed symbolic imagery in order to communicate at times heavy-handed irony and paradox. Other works include Active Service 1899, The Monster 1899, The Blue Hotel 1899, Whilomville Stories 1900 and Wounds in the Rain 1900.

The Monster

Stephen Crane 1871 1900 was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage 1895. The novel introduced for most readers Crane’s strikingly original prose, an intensely rendered mix of impressionism, naturalism and symbolism. He lived in New York City a bohemian life where he observed the poor in the Bowery slums as research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 1893, a milestone in uncompromising realism and in the early development of literary naturalism. He became shipwrecked in route to Cuba in early 1897, an experience which he later transformed into his short story masterpiece, The Open Boat 1898. Crane’s poetry, which he called ‘lines’ rather than poems, was also strikingly new in its minimalist meter and rhyme. It employed symbolic imagery in order to communicate at times heavy handed irony and paradox. Other works include Active Service 1899, The Monster 1899, The Blue Hotel 1899, Whilomville Stories 1900 and Wounds in the Rain 1900.

Whilomville Stories

Stephen Crane 1871 1900 was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage 1895. The novel introduced for most readers Crane’s strikingly original prose, an intensely rendered mix of impressionism, naturalism and symbolism. He lived in New York City a bohemian life where he observed the poor in the Bowery slums as research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 1893, a milestone in uncompromising realism and in the early development of literary naturalism. He became shipwrecked in route to Cuba in early 1897, an experience which he later transformed into his short story masterpiece, The Open Boat 1898. Crane’s poetry, which he called ‘lines’ rather than poems, was also strikingly new in its minimalist meter and rhyme. It employed symbolic imagery in order to communicate at times heavy handed irony and paradox. Other works include Active Service 1899, The Monster 1899, The Blue Hotel 1899, Whilomville Stories 1900 and Wounds in the Rain 1900.

Wounds In The Rain

‘War Stories’ is the laconic sub title of Wounds In The Rain. It was not war on a grand scale that Crane saw in the Spanish American complication, in which he participated as a war correspondent; no such war as the recent horror. But the occasions for personal heroism were no fewer than always, and the opportunities for the exercise of such powers of trained and appreciative understanding and sympathy as Crane possessed, were abundant. For the most part, these tales are episodic, reports of isolated instances the profanely humorous experiences of correspondents, the magnificent courage of signalmen under fire, the forgotten adventure of a converted yacht but all are instinct with the red fever of war, and are backgrounded with the choking smoke of battle. Never again did Crane attempt the large canvas of THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. Before he had seen war, he imagined its immensity and painted it with the fury and fidelity of a Verestchagin; when he was its familiar, he singled out its minor, crimson passages for briefer but no less careful delineation.

Men, Women and Boats

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG Through the purchase of this book, you have assisted 1st World Library Literary Society a nonprofit organization in achieving it’s goals: www. 1stworldlibrary. org 1. Creating a free, user friendly, Internet library accessible from any computer worldwide. 2. Hosting writing competitions and offering book publishing scholarships. It hardly profits us to conjecture what Stephen Crane might have written about the World War had he lived. Certainly, he would have been in it, in one capacity or another. No man had a greater talent for war and personal adventure, nor a finer art in describing it. Few writers of recent times could so well describe the poetry of motion as manifested in the surge and flow of battle, or so well depict the isolated deed of heroism in its stark simplicity and terror. To such an undertaking as Henri Barbusse’s ‘Under Fire,’ that powerful, brutal book, Crane would have brought an analytical genius almost clairvoyant. He possessed an uncanny vision; a descriptive ability photographic in its clarity and its care for minutiae yet unphotographic in that the big central thing often is omitted, to be felt rather than seen in the occult suggestion of detail. Crane would have seen and depicted the grisly horror of it all, as did Barbusse, but also he would have seen the glory and the ecstasy and the wonder of it, and over that his poetry would have been spread.

Great Short Works of Stephen Crane

The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Stephen Crane died at the age of 28 in Germany. In his short life, he produced stories that are among the most enduring in the history of American ficiton. The Red Badge of Courage manages to capture both the realistic grit and the grand hallucinations of soldiers at war. Maggie: A Girl on the Streets reflects the range of Crane’s ability to invest the most tragic and ordinary lives with great insight. James Colvert writes in the introduction to this volume: ‘Here we find once again the major elements of Crane’s art: the egotism of the hero, the indifference of nature, the irony of the narrator…
Crane is concerned with the moral responsibility of the individual…
and moral capability depends upon the ability to see through the illusions wrought by pride and conceit the ability to see ourselves clearly and truly.’ Great Short Works of Stephen Crane Includes : The Red Badge of Courage; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; The Monster. Stories: An Experiment in Misery; A Mystery of Heroism; An Episode of War; The Upturned Face; The Open Boat; The Pace of Youth; The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky; The Blue Hotel.

Great Battles Of The World

1901. Crane, the iconoclastic novelist, poet, short story writer, journalist, and war correspondent who propelled American literature into the modernist age. His second novel, The Red Badge Of Courage, brought him international fame. Great Battles Of The World is a work of nonfiction culled from a popular magazine series.

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