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Great Short Works
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 s
...morePaperback, 384 pages
Published
July 1st 2004
by Harper Perennial
(first published 1968)
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This is Crane's philosophy:
"When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks, and no temples. Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers."
And his irony in the final sentence of the story:
"When it ame night, the white waves paced to and fro ...more
"When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks, and no temples. Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers."
And his irony in the final sentence of the story:
"When it ame night, the white waves paced to and fro ...more
Ok, so aside from the fact that the inclusion of _The Red Badge of Courage_ at the very beginning of this collection does not adequately display Crane's artistry, the stories that follow are remarkable: "Maggie" is excellent, "The Open Boat" is chilling, and "The Monster" is equally fascinating. Crane is great, but I wouldn't try to read this whole collection all at once.
If only all these stories were as good as "The Red Badge of Courage". Bummer.
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Stephen Crane was an American novelist, poet and journalist, best known for the novel Red Badge of Courage. That work introduced the reading world to Crane's striking prose, a mix of impressionism, naturalism and symbolism. He died at age 28 in Badenweiler, Baden, Germany.
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