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by: Stephen Crane
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780548959138
ISBN: 0548959137
Label: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 308
Publication Date: June 02, 2008
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Sales Rank: 2059563
Studio: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Product Description:
Four prized selections, 'The Open Boat,' 'The Blue Hotel' 'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky' and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Amazing writer, great deal
This is short but packed with excellent short stories by Crane. I had to buy this for an english class but I've read it twice since then just because its so good. The first story takes place in Brooklyn and it seems very authentic even today. This is one of my favorite authors and I guess there's a reason they have you read him in school - to get you into reading!
Rating: - New York Matters
Crane has a delightfully light style of writing that can take the deepest and most sorrowful of situations, and somehow bring them light. His, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," is a wonderful depiction of life for a 19th century girl in New York. "The Open Boat" puts you on the ship; you can naturally feel the narration and flow with him as he crashes against the waves. A wonderful read for any interested in American or New York literature.
Rating: - Hard stories for hard times
Stephen Crane died at the early age of 29, but in his writing he shows what he'd come through in life. I think his style is mature and hardened up, due to a life spent in difficult times. In "The Blue Hotel", he depicts a brief, brutal and enigmatic moment in the lives of several residents and migrants in Nebraska, a stupid and cruel fight in the midst of a snow blizzard.
The rest of the stories have to do with Civil War episodes and other moments in the US history. My favorite tale is ... Read More
Rating: - Better Than "The Red Badge of Courage"
Crane proves to be an early American master of the short story. I found "Courage" to be plodding and obvious, but Crane's short stories rescue his literary reputation for me.
The stories are well paced with vivid characters and little epiphany by story's end.
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