Stephen Crane: 201 books

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...

*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. The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author...

Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognised by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. (Wikipedia)

Esta obra maestra de Stephen Crane, La Roja Insignia del Valor nos describe, con terrible y desolada ironía, un episodio de la guerra civil norteamericana. La novela constituye un valioso ejemplo del género del relato bélico, en el que se mezclan sabiamente reales y ficticios.

In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures. There were long rows of shops, whose fronts shone with full, golden light. Here and there, from druggists' windows, or from the red street-lamps that...

According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation."

Though he is today best remembered as the author of the classic Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, American author Stephen Crane was widely lauded as one of the foremost practitioners of the short-story format in the early twentieth century. This fine collection brings together a number of his...

Following a shipwreck, four survivors are adrift in a leaking dinghy—The Open Boat. The captain is hurt but still able to lead, the cook keeps the boat afloat by bailing, and the correspondent and the oiler—a man whose job it is to oil machinery—take turns rowing. At first, angry at their situation...

A collection of tales, sketches and stories by the master of American naturalism and realism Stephen Crane.

Short story collection, first published in 1900. According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of...

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.

The Open Boat, one of the seventeen stories featured in this volume is based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while travelling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent. Crane was stranded at sea for thirty hours when his ship, the SS Commodore, sank after hitting a sandbar.

Wounds in the Rain, published in September 1900, contains fictional tales based on Crane's reports for the World and the Journal during the Spanish-American War. These stories, which Crane wrote while desperately ill, include "The Price of the Harness" and "The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins" and are dramatic, ironic and sometimes humorous.

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...