The Portable Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane, Joseph Katz, Joseph Katz

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Viking Portable Library
28 July 1977

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Portable Library

""A man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his vision-he is merely responsible for his quality of personal honesty."" In the course of his tragically abbreviated career, Stephen Crane (1871-1900) saw things that his contemporaries preferred to overlook-the low life of New York'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.

The Portable Stephen Crane allows us to appreciate the full scope and power of this writer's vision. It contains three complete novels-Maggie- A Girl of the Streets, George's Mother, and Crane's masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage; nineteen short stories and sketches, including ""The Blue Hotel"" and ""The Open Boat,"" a barely fictionalized account of his own escape from shipwreck while covering the Cuban revolt against Spain; the previously unpublished essay ""Above All Things""; letters and poems, plus a critical essay and notes by the noted Crane scholar Joseph Katz.

By: Stephen Crane
Notes by: Joseph Katz
Introduction by: Joseph Katz
Imprint: Viking Portable Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Open market ed
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 448g
ISBN: 9780140150681
ISBN 10: 0140150684
Series: Portable Library
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 28 July 1977
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Editor's Note Crane Chronology Part One: The World of Maggie The Maggie Inscription to Hamlin Garland A Letter from Stephen Crane to Catherine Harris Maggie: A Girl of the Streets A Great Mistake An Ominous Baby A Dark-Brown Dog George's Mother The Men in the Storm An Experiment in Misery An Experiment in Luxury Heard on the Street Election Night Above All Things Part Two: The World of Henry Fleming A Letter from Stephen Crane to Mrs. Olive Brett Armstrong The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War An Episode of War The Veteran Part Three: A World of Shipwreck A Letter from Stephen Crane to Cora E. Stewart Stephen Crane's Own Story Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure The Open Boat Part Four: A World of Ironies A Letter from Stephen Crane to Lily Brandon Monroe A Letter from Stephen Crane to Willis Brooks Hawkins Two Letters from Stephen Crane to Nellie Crouse The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Five White Mice The Blue Hotel The Monster His New Mittens The Knife Part Five: A World in Miniature A Letter from Stephen Crane to Copeland & Day A Letter from Stephen Crane to De Morest's Family Magazine From The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895) From the Uncollected Poems From War Is Kind (1899) From the Posthumously PUblished Poems A Prologue

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was active as a reporter around the world in addition to being an acclaimed novelist.