The Portable Stephen Crane (Portable Library)

The Portable Stephen Crane (Portable Library)

â€œA man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his visionâ€”he is merely responsible for his quality of personal honesty.â€ In the course of his tragically abbreviated career, Stephen Crane (1871â€“1900) saw things that his contemporaries preferred to overlookâ€”the low life of New Yorkâ€™s Irish slums; the tedium, brutality, and chaos that were the true conditions of the Civil War; the ambiguous contract that binds a terrified man to his killer and the damned to their human judges. He communicated what he saw with the same laconic factuality that characterized his journalism and, in the process, laid the foundations for the unblinking realism of Hemingway and Dos Passos.
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The Portable Stephen Crane allows us to appreciate the full scope and power of this writerâ€™s vision. It contains three complete novelsâ€”Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Georgeâ€™s Mother, and Craneâ€™s masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage; nineteen short stories and sketches, including â€œThe Blue Hotelâ€ and â€œThe Open Boat,â€ a barely fictionalized account of his own escape from shipwreck while covering the Cuban revolt against Spain; the previously unpublished essay â€œAbove All Thingsâ€; letters and poems, plus a critical essay and notes by the noted Crane scholar Joseph Katz.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780140150681
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1977-07-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140150681

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780140150681
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1977-07-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780140150681

The Portable Stephen Crane (Portable Library)

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