Bøker av Stephen Crane

Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories?among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story?that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brilliantly conveyed through the cold, sometimes brutal irony of Crane's narrative voice.

This posthumously published collection of stories, sketches, and articles includes the story "An Episode of War," one of Crane's most important works, plus "The Reluctant Voyagers," "Spitzbergen Tales," "Wyoming Valley Tales," "London Impressions," "New York Sketches," "Irish Notes," "Sullivan County Sketches," and much more.

In 1863, facing battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

Through the purchase of this book, you have assisted 1st World Library-Literary Society (a nonprofit organization) in achieving it's goals: www.1stworldlibrary.org 1. Creating a free, user-friendly, Internet library accessible from any computer worldwide. 2. Hosting writing competitions and offering book publishing scholarships. It hardly profits us to conjecture what Stephen Crane might have written about the World War had he lived. Certainly, he would have been in it, in one capacity or another. No man had a greater talent for war and personal adventure, nor a finer art in describing it. Few writers of recent times could so well describe the poetry of motion as manifested in the surge and flow of battle, or so well depict the isolated deed of heroism in its stark simplicity and terror. To such an undertaking as Henri Barbusse's "Under Fire," that powerful, brutal book, Crane would have brought an analytical genius almost clairvoyant. He possessed an uncanny vision; a descriptive ability photographic in its clarity and its care for minutiae - yet unphotographic in that the big central thing often is omitted, to be felt rather than seen in the occult suggestion of detail. Crane would have seen and depicted the grisly horror of it all, as did Barbusse, but also he would have seen the glory and the ecstasy and the wonder of it, and over that his poetry would have been spread.