Seven vivid, sensitively written tales of the Civil War by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Includes fine title story plus "Three Miraculous Soldiers," "A Mystery of Heroism," "A Gray Sleeve," "An Indiana Campaign," "An Episode of the War" and "The Veteran."
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Civil War,
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This review is from: The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War (mobi) (Kindle Edition)
The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane. Published by MobileReference (mobi)
Crane's writing is excellent on most levels. His descriptions of the insane violence of battle is graphically intense, and of reasonable historical accuracy. This is a great book about heroism, courage, duty, and the psychological aspects of war.
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Stephen Crane also wrote seven short Civil War stories,
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This review is from: The Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
Stephen Crane is best known, of course, for his remarkable short novel, The Red Badge of Courage. His short stories - like the seven Civil War tales in this short (76 pages) Dover edition - are less familiar. These tales are notable for portraying the Civil War from the perspective of the soldier - novice and veteran, young and old, courageous and otherwise. All seven stories are good and warrant reading.
The collection includes A Mystery of Heroism (1895), A Gray Sleeve (1895), Three Miraculous Soldiers (1896), The Little Regiment (1896), The Veteran (1896), An Indiana Campaign (1896), and An Episode of War (1899). The Little Regiment, the best known (and at 16 pages the longest) story in this collection, is about two brothers that continually feud, thereby disguising their deep affection and love for each other. My favorites were the shorter stories: A Mystery of Heroism, The Veteran, An Indiana Campaign, and An Episode of War. All four address the meaning of courage, but from quite varied perspectives. I found both A Gray Sleeve and Three Miraculous Soldiers to be a little dated, a little staged, and maybe a bit too melodramatic. Other collections that might interest you: Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce (Dover edition) and The Civil War Stories of Harold Frederic (Syracuse University Press).
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A Collection Of Entertaining U.S. Civil War Tales,
By Edward Stephen Gross (Washington, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
This Review refers to the paperback edition of "The Little Regiment" and Other Civil War Stories (Dover Thrift Editions), by Stephen Crane."The Little Regiment" and Other Civil War Stories is a small collection of Civil War tales by the masterful storyteller Stephen Crane. This particular collection contains; "A Mystery of Heroism", "A Gray Sleeve", "Three Miraculous Soldiers", "The Little Regiment", "The Veteran", "An Indiana Campaign", and "An Episode of War". Each story describes the plights of soldiers or ex-soldiers in a manner that few other authors have been able to portray. Preceding the selection is a short biography of the gifted author. Crane's short stories are surprisingly true to the Civil War, despite his being born after the subject. Through his literary work, Crane provides a window into the life of the soldier - a detail dismissed in the majority of literature due to the centering on generals or famous leaders. The literary style Crane presents is said, by some, to be confusing, especially due to his naming a certain person and then neglecting to call that person by their name later in the story (i.e. if an author starts a conversation in a book naming a soldier as "John" and then later refers to him as "the soldier"). However, this form of writing conveys a sense that the soldier is any soldier and that the name has no particular influence on how the soldier acts or reacts, therefore defining not a single soldier, but rather the general soldier - every soldier. Crane also presents environments not from a visual perspective, but rather from the perspective that a human consciousness would be in possession of. The work of Stephen Crane is rather remarkable and deserves to be read in centuries to come. Despite the quality of his work, however, the book is composed of rather cheap materials. It is suggested that the reader purchase this collection only if they have the intention of reading the book a relatively few times, and that if the reader looks to have a book that will last a while to get a copy of his tales in a better quality paper. To conclude, the stories will make a great addition to any library although it would be best to get a print of higher quality paper composition.
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