Stephen Crane: 201 books

Excerpt: "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...

Twenty-five men were making a road out of a path up the hillside. The light batteries in the rear were impatient to advance, but first must be done all that digging and smoothing which gains no encrusted medals from war. The men worked like gardeners, and a road was growing from the old pack-animal...

The Monster (1898) is the story of an African-American coachman who is branded a 'monster' after being hideously disfigured whilst saving his master's son from a fire. It explores the themes of prejudice, fear and isolation in small town America.

How far would a father go to keep his daughter from marrying the wrong man? Rufus Coleman, the respected editor of the New York Eclipse, plans to marry Marjory Wainwright. Yet to her father, Professor Wainwright, Rufus is still the wastrel that he thought him to be as a student in college. To thwart...

The Whilomville Stories is a collection of 13 short stories. These are great short stories about childhood. They centre around a young boy growing up in a small town. (Goodreads)

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. How far would a father go to keep his daughter from marrying...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. My chieftain ancestors had lived at Glandore for many centuries...

The Red Badge of Courage follows events of the American Civil War, and life of a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a red badge of courage, to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer.

Rufus Coleman is now a respectable member of society, an editor of the New York Eclipse. He is hoping to marry Majory Wainwright despite her father's reservations. As the war between Turkey and Greece erupts we find Majory unable to return from her trip to Greece.

A todos aquellos que han soñado alguna vez con marchas, asedios, conflictos, "tempestades de acero", y han deseado verlos o participar en ellos; a quienes confunden patriotismo con ardor guerrero y desprecian a los que opinan que el hombre es más importante en una granja que en el campo...

"The Red Badge Of Courage" was first published in 1895. Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound—a "red badge of courage"—to counteract his cowardice....

On his deathbed, O'Ruddy's father entrusts him with some papers to deliver to England. Shortly after the father's death, O'Ruddy travels to England with the papers. Not long after his arrival, his papers are stolen...

How far would a father go to keep his daughter from marrying the wrong man? Rufus Coleman, the respected editor of the New York Eclipse, plans to marry Marjory Wainwright. Yet to her father, Professor Wainwright, Rufus is still the wastrel that he thought him to be as a student in college. To thwart...