Open Boat (Creative Short Stories) [Library Binding]

Stephen Crane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1981 | Series: Creative Short Stories

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage (1895). The novel introduced for most readers Crane's strikingly original prose, an intensely rendered mix of impressionism, naturalism and symbolism. He lived in New York City a bohemian life where he observed the poor in the Bowery slums as research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a milestone in uncompromising realism and in the early development of literary naturalism. He became shipwrecked in route to Cuba in early 1897, an experience which he later transformed into his short story masterpiece, The Open Boat (1898). Crane's poetry, which he called 'lines' rather than poems, was also strikingly new in its minimalist meter and rhyme. It employed symbolic imagery in order to communicate at times heavy-handed irony and paradox. Other works include Active Service (1899), The Monster (1899), The Blue Hotel (1899), Whilomville Stories (1900) and Wounds in the Rain (1900).

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Travelman Publishing Editorial Board: Martin Amis, Mark Amory, Beryl Bainbridge, Alexander Chancelor, Dame Muriel Spark, William Trevor, and Auberon Waugh --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: Creative Co (Sd) (September 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871918269
• ISBN-13: 978-0871918260
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,066,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)