The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and Other Selected Writings

by Stephen Crane, Phyllis Frus, Stanley Corkin

This comprehensive volume of Crane's work includes the first published editions of The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, both of which were considerably toned down in subsequent editions for a genteel 1890s reading public. This volume also presents his short fiction, as well as a wealth of supplementary material, including historical and cultural contexts, essays on urban life and reform in the late 19th century (to accompany Maggie), Civil War backgrounds (to accompany The Red Badge of Courage), and Spanish-American War backgrounds (to accompany Crane's short writings on the subject).

Genres: Classics

474 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist, best known for the novel, The 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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Reviews

[Chiefmoneygripps Givens]

Love Stephen Crane. Can do more with one sentence than most authors can do with an entire book.

[Liz Jensen]

I'm not a huge fan of Crane. He has beautiful prose but everything I've read by him is really depressing and seems to have no real point or message to it except to tell you that life stinks for these people and aren't you glad you're not them. And the protagonist in Red Badge of Courage was a whiny ninny.