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The Complete Short Stories of Stephen Crane: 100+ Tales & Novellas: Maggie, The Open Boat, Blue Hotel, The Monster, The Little Regiment...

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For the first time all 112 of Stephen Crane's short stories and sketches - including several that have not been included in any previous collection and two that are now in print for the first time - have been brought together in one volume. Critics call Stephen Crane, who is best known for his Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, the first "modern" American writer. Crane was only twenty-eight when he died, but his work had a profound influence on American letters. He helped to kill sentimentality in American writing, giving this country's fiction renewed strength and dignity as an art form. Crane is considered the American counterpart of such European Nationalists as Zola, Tolstoy, and Flaubert. He refused to bow to the conventions of the day or to popular taste, but wrote about life as he saw it in the closing years of the nineteenth century. And "honest vision of life" was the foundation stone of his artistic aims, and so he sought first-hand experiences and personal involvement in his themes. He lived the life of "The Open Boat" before he wrote the story. His stories of war and conflict, such as "A Mystery of Heroism" and "Virtue in War," reflect his experiences as a war correspondent. Crane strove for originality in his writing; "his style - tense, darting, abrupt, ironic - blends perfectly with an impressionistic technique to give emotional, psychological, and symbolic significance to a series of astutely observed and richly colored episodes." The stories and sketches that were a product of his one-man literary revolution are as "modern" today as ever

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The Complete Short Stories of Stephen Crane: 100+ Tales & Novellas: Maggie, The Open Boat, Blue Hotel, The Monster, The Little Regiment..., Stephen Crane

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