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An army lieutenant concentrates on rationing out his company's supply of coffee, meticulously dividing the brown squares before him, when a shot rings out. The enlisted men, startled by the noise, suddenly see blood saturating their lieutenant's sleeve.

The Red Badge of Courage is a masterpiece about a young private in the Union Army whose youthful enthusiasm about the glory of Civil War battle gives way to increasing doubt and worry. He fears that when he comes to be tested in his first encounter on the battlefield, he will be found deficient of courage.

"An Ominous Baby", which is quite short, is an unexpected Stephen Crane jewel. Crane is best known for three short stories, "The Open Boat", thought by many to be the best short story ever written, "The Blue Hotel", and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky". "An Ominous Baby" is perhaps the most unusual of the other ten Crane stories Simply recorded. It deserves to be right up there with the top three.

Represented here are 16 short stories by seven great American writers, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American.

Stephen Crane is best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, but he also wrote a number of powerful short stories. Crane's writing style is noted for his use of a method that has come to be known as "naturalism", in which characters face very realistic and often bleak circumstances. This excellent and very humorous story is an exception to his usual rather somber stories.

Bored with farm life, and anxious for some excitement, Henry Fleming sets off to join the Union troops fighting the Civil War. An inexperienced fighter, he is anxious to get into battle to prove his patriotism and courage. He swaggers to keep up his spirits waiting for battle, but when suddenly thrust into the slaughter he is overcome with blind fear and runs from the field of battle.

Durch einen Schneesturm wird "Das blaue Hotel" in Nebraska von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten. Der Wirt, sein Sohn und drei weitere anwesende Gäste sind fortan auf sich allein gestellt und müssen sich, so weit es geht, arrangieren. Doch das ist leichter gesagt als getan. Denn in dem Hotel prallen unterschiedliche Religionen und Gesellschaftsschichten aufeinander, sodass es immer wieder zu Konflikten kommt. Vor allem der schwedische Gast aus New York macht den anderen mit seiner absurd-paranoiden Art das Leben schwer.

A searing tale of fear and courage, set during the Civil War, but more powerful today than ever. A young man enlists in the Union Army but nervously wonders how he will react to the blood, violence, and death of a real battle. When that terrible day arrives, he flees the fighting in terror. But his cowardly behavior gnaws at his conscience, and he searches for redemption for what he has done.

The Open Boat and Other Stories features four prized selections by Stephen Crane, recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. "The Open Boat" is based on a harrowing incident in the author's life: the 1897 sinking of a ship on which he was a passenger; "The Blue Hotel" and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" reflect Crane's early travels in Mexico and the American Southwest; and the novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a galvanizing portrait of life in the slums of New York City.

During the American Civil War, a young Union Army private named Henry Fleming envisions that his first battle will be like a great Homerian epic. Swollen with pride and the admiration of his entire hometown, he embarks on his great military adventure with confidence. However, when the bullets first start flying and the artillery shells first start exploding, he immediately flees the battle in total cowardice.

Stephen Crane was born 1st November 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, and was the eighth surviving child out of 14. Incredibly, he began writing at the age of four and was published several times by the age of 16. Crane only began a full-time education when he was nine but quickly mastered the grades needed to catch up and move forward. Although educated at Lafayette and Syracuse, he had little interest in completing university and was keener to move on to a career, declaring college to be ‘a waste of time’.

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Crane is noted for his early employment of naturalism, a literary style in which characters face realistically portrayed and often bleak circumstances, but Crane added impressionistic imagery and biblical symbolism to the austere realism.

Henry, or the youth as Crane refers to him leaves his home a naïve boy with visions of grandeur and glory; yet he runs from his first battle only to later join the walking wounded as an imposter. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage. He falls in with men who will shortly die from their wounds. One, a spectral soldier with a terrible wound, turns out to be his friend Jim Conklin.

In this brief, haunting tale, Stephen Crane casts a quiet, unflinching gaze at innocence, cruelty, and the strange bargains we make in the name of love. Told in spare, evocative prose, A Dark Brown Dog is more than it appears — a fable with no moral, a friendship with no promise, a home with no safety.

Included: The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe, Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée by Mateo Falcone, Napoleon And The Spectre by Charlotte Bronte, The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frog by Edgar Allan Poe, The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare.

Johnnie, un antiguo plantador de azúcar convertido en espía americano, se infiltra en La Habana, una ciudad llena de tensión y falsas victorias. Mientras los ciudadanos celebran noticias infladas y ficticias, Johnnie juega su papel entre las sombras, arriesgándolo todo por una información que podría cambiar el rumbo del conflicto.

En La segunda generación de Stephen Crane, nos encontramos con Caspar Cadogan, un joven que decide seguir los pasos de su padre, un influyente senador, y buscar la gloria en la guerra. Stephen Crane dibuja magistralmente la lucha interna de Caspar: la presión de las expectativas paternales, el peso de la responsabilidad y la cruda realidad de la guerra.

Lo que comenzó como una tranquila travesía se convierte en una desesperada carrera por la supervivencia cuando dos cañoneros españoles aparecen en el horizonte, dispuestos a dar caza al pequeño barco americano. Shackles, los periodistas y la tripulación se enfrentan al miedo, la incertidumbre y la constante amenaza de ser alcanzados y destruidos.

En medio de un páramo desolado, bajo la luz de una luna que ilumina tanto sombras como incertidumbres, un grupo de marines de los Estados Unidos se enfrenta a un enemigo invisible, pero también a la fragilidad de la mente humana. Cuando Dryden comienza a ver enemigos donde no los hay, Peasley se ve obligado a contener el caos que amenaza con explotar en cualquier momento, mientras el fragor de la batalla se acerca cada vez más.

Con su valentía ingenua y su naturaleza tenaz, Perkins se adentra en el corazón del campo de batalla en la Bahía de Guantánamo, enfrentándose al caos de la guerra con nada más que una botella de whisky y una actitud decidida. Pero cuando un disparo desata un ataque completo, Perkins se ve obligado a encontrar refugio en el lugar más inesperado: una vieja caldera de vapor oxidada y abandonada.