Stephen Crane
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English
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How far would a father go to keep his daughter from marrying the wrong man? Rufus Coleman, the respected editor of the New York Eclipse, plans to marry Marjory Wainwright. Yet to her father, Professor Wainwright, Rufus is still the wastrel that he thought him to be as a student in college. To thwart the marriage the professor drags Marjory off with him and a group of students on a summer tour of Greece. Suddenly war erupts between Turkey and Greece!...
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Language
English
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Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works, The Red Badge of Courage has a young recruit facing the trials and cruelties of war. Stephen Crane's 1895 novel is set in the American Civil War. Private Henry Fleming flees from battle and his battalion, considering all lost. Stumbling upon injured soldiers, he feels the shame of deserting and of not possessing the "red badge of courage", the wounds of war. But later when Henry
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Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction, by Stephen Crane, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies...
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English
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Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century novel about Maggie, a beautiful tenement girl whose life takes a downward spin when she becomes involved with Pete; and includes backgrounds and sources, reviews, critical essays, and a history of the novel's composition and revision.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories-among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story-that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic...
12) The blue hotel
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Publisher
Dodo Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Story of three men, the Swede, the Cowboy, and the Easterner, who stay at the blue Palace Hotel in rural Nebraska, with tragic results.
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Presents Stephen Crane's 1893 novel about Maggie, a beautiful young tenement girl whose life takes a downward spin when she becomes involved with Pete; and features additional writings by Crane, including "George's Mother" and other Bowery tales, and a selection of New York journalism.
14) Prose and poetry
Author
Series
Library of America ; 18
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Crane's complete novels are accompanied by his poetry and, arranged by place and time, his short stories, sketches and newspaper articles.
