false 812893 3 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 research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a milestone in uncompromising realism and in the early development of literary naturalism. He became shipwrecked in route to Cuba in early 1897, an experience which he later transformed into his short story masterpiece, The Open Boat (1898). Crane's poetry, which he called 'lines' rather than poems, was also strikingly new in its minimalist meter and rhyme. It employed symbolic imagery in order to communicate at times heavy-handed irony and paradox. Other works include Active Service (1899), The Monster (1899), The Blue Hotel (1899), Whilomville Stories (1900) and Wounds in the Rain (1900). 798829 1969 Blue Hotel total:64|5:17|4:18|3:18|2:8|1:3| 64 230 87 5 4 0 false false Tue Jun 09 13:36:50 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 13:38:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 27 06:50:12 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 06:50:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 23 20:29:57 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 20:30:42 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978 Thu Jun 14 22:34:30 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 24 23:43:24 -0800 2008 It is a beautiful, sad, horrifying story. It's always good to have a collection of Crane's stories. It's even better to have one named after the best one he wrote.]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 17:28:40 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 19:23:12 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 20 17:59:20 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 17:59:20 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 17:32:58 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 17:32:58 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 08 15:16:45 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 15:16:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 03 09:43:22 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 09:43:22 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 09 09:20:28 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 09:20:34 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Oct 04 15:30:20 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 15:30:20 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Aug 05 11:59:25 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 11:59:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 28 20:00:04 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 20:00:06 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 01:45:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 01:45:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 15:33:57 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 15:33:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 22 07:51:57 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 07:51:57 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jul 01 20:15:13 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 20:15:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 21 16:31:35 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 16:31:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 19 21:57:27 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 21:57:30 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jun 12 15:39:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 15:39:30 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6811514