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The Open Boat (Dodo Press)
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 researc...more
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
April 18th 2008
by Dodo Press
(first published September 1981)
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This short story is based upon Crane’s own experience of being in a dinghy after the ship he was on sank. In the story, four men have been in a ten-foot boat for three days, the injured captain, the oiler, the cook, and the correspondent, the latter presumably Crane himself. Crane’s descriptions of the sea and the waves are powerful, and the fatigue and emotions of the men are skillfully explored as hour after hour passes. Finally the men are in sight of shore but cannot land because of the r...more
Crane drew me into this one quietly. I found myself there, with these men, rocking in the boat, soaking wet, exhausted, hearing the crash of the surf, and wondering why help did not come and if we would make it. A testimony of Stephen Crane's talent.
I think that my reading of this story was heightened by the fact that we were driving down to Florida at the time. I can only imagine what my active imagination would have done if I had read this floating on a raft at the beach.
This book has one of the best leads i have ever read.'none of them knew the color of the sky...' This is probably the best shport sorty ive read, and the more times you read it, the more you get out of it.
It was a good short story; depressing, but good. It shows a lot about how people's characters don't always figure into whether they get what they deserve (in a positive or negative sense) or not.
This is based on an experience of the author. It is well written, however too dark for my taste.
This was a good short story. Very descriptive in its imagery.
I get more out of this story every time I read it. A classic.
I couldn't finish The Red Badge of Courage, but I liked this story.
I love this short story by the great Stephen Crane. A group of men find themselves at the mercy of nature when they are at sea in a small boat during a storm.
actually not that bad of a story.
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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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“A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.”
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