Stephen Crane

Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895....

Originally published pseudonymously in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets follows the tragic tale of Maggie and her life in the harsh streets and tenements of the New York City Bowery district....

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a ground breaking novel relating to the precarious state of women in the new industrial world at the end of the 19th century....

This classic novel is the fictional story about Henry Fleming who was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War in the late 1800s....

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"The Open Boat" is considered Stephen Crane's finest work and one of the great short stories of all time....

The Red Badge of Courage is one of the most psychologically penetrating war novels ever written. Published in 1895, Stephen Crane’s groundbreaking work strips away romantic notions of heroism to reveal war as it is experienced from the inside....

Selections from Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, George Pickett, Lt. Colonel W.W. Blackford, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Sarah Morgan Dawson, George T. Stevens, John McElroy, William T. Sherman, Adeline Grey, and more....

War is always a tragedy. There may be a winner of sorts but always a loser. The cost in injuries, death, destruction can never be fully recovered even if glossed over by a military or political elite that proclaims otherwise.

A gripping testament to human endurance and the indifference of nature, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane captures the harrowing true story of survival at sea after the wreck of the steamer Commodore.

Esta narración es una historia enigmática; un relato escalofriante en el que en ningún momento se sabe exactamente qué sucede ni por qué.

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death. The stories in Storm have more to say than that. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving.....

Henry Fleming is a young private in the Union army during the American Civil War - a farm boy untested by battle. Faced with charging rebels, he flees. With his ideals shattered and his heart burdened by shame, Henry seeks an opportunity to redeem himself....

A young American civil war recruit overcomes initial fears and shame to become a hero on the battlefield....

'The Open Boat' is probably Stephen Crane's best known and most admired story. It tells the adventure of four sailors who are sole survivors of a shipwreck at sea....

Henry Flemming is a young Northern boy who, swept up in the patriotic tide, joins the Union Army....

Will Henry be able to redeem himself on the field of battle the next day or will he live in total disgrace and shame the rest of his days? Find out in Stephen Crane’s definitive novel on the Civil War from a young soldier’s perspective, The Red Badge of Courage....

Our ‘fight of flight’ response is something hardwired into the primitive part of our brain. In this volume people struggle valiantly to survive and to exist no matter the extent of the threat they face....

When we read or listen, words can have a transforming effect. Our mood can alter in the space of a few sentences from joy to sadness. And not just our mood. These words can affect us physically, they can engage our emotions and even in their sadness bring a lump to our throat....

Art and life. Each the mirror of the other. This then is the classic definition of what ‘Realism’ as a writing form really is. Some might call it a fancy term for the mundane day to day pursuits but in the hands of an author it comes alive....