The Complete Short Stories and Sketches of Stephen Crane
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…
Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He attempted college twice, the second time failing a theme-writing course while writing articles for newspapers such as the New York Tribune. In 1892 Crane moved to the poverty of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Bowery so vividly depicted in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. In 1894 the serial publication began of The Red Badge of Courage, his acclaimed and widely popular novel of a young soldier’s coming of age in the Civil War. He died in Germany at the age of twenty-eight, in June of 1900.
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
The Complete Short Stories and Sketches of Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane, edited by Thomas A. Gullason
The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle
Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln
The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Four Classic American Novels
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Selected Stories
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
Stephen Crane; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gary Scharnhorst
The Red Badge of Courage & "The Veteran"
Stephen Crane
Maggie: a Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane
Four Great American Classics
Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Stephen Crane