Stephen Crane : Prose and Poetry : Maggie, A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism / The Black Riders / War Is Kind (Library of America) [Hardcover]

Stephen Crane (Author)

Book Description

Series: Library of America | Publication Date: August 15, 1984

"Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," "The Red Badge of Courage," "George's Mother," "The Third Violet," journalism, tales and sketches, poetry. Includes firsthand accounts from Greece, and from Cuba during the Spanish-American war.

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A Grey And Boiling Street
Intrigue
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A Man Adrift On A Slim Spar
A Naked Woman And A Dead Dwarf
Tell Me Not In Joyous Numbers
There Exists The Eternal Fact Of Conflict
There Is A Grey Thing That Lives In The Tree-tops
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-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Crane's journalism and war dispatches ... disclose the complex interactions of history, journalism, and fiction. -- Boston Globe

From the Publisher

The Library of America is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1379 pages
• Publisher: Library of America; 1st ptg. edition (August 15, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0940450178
• ISBN-13: 978-0940450172
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Conjures up Images that Stay with You, March 1, 2006

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This review is from: Stephen Crane : Prose and Poetry : Maggie, A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism / The Black Riders / War Is Kind (Library of America) (Hardcover)

His prose is excellent, but his poetry (the black riders / war is kind) is what stays with me. The striking images, dark humor and subversive fight against authority bring me back to the book decade after decade. These aren't Shakespearean sonnets; if he was born a hundred years later he would be channeling his raw feelings into writing lyrics for Rage Against the Machine. His poetry seems so modern it is hard to reconcile it with the completely different feel of The Red Badge of Courage and his splendid Spanish American War reporting.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The great American war novel plus, November 15, 2005

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This review is from: Stephen Crane : Prose and Poetry : Maggie, A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism / The Black Riders / War Is Kind (Library of America) (Hardcover)

This volume contains all of Crane's major writings. I believe it is fair to say that it is 'The Red Badge of Courage' that gives Crane his place in the American pantheon. This is arguably the finest war novel ever written by an American. Its imaginative construction of the inner conflict of a young dreamer when confronted with the reality of battle-and the redemptive aftermath is a tautly and beautifully written realistic , moral drama. Its perception of the part imagination plays in our apprehension of reality connects it with a long tradition of the novel from 'Quixote' to ' Lord Jim'.
Crane like Keats was a literary fire that burned briefly but deeply and intensely.