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An essay on life during the Victorian era prefaces a collection of writings by leading British authors whose works reflect the values and concerns of the age.

The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An American-African coachman named Henry Johnson, who is employed by the town's physician, Dr. Trescott, becomes horribly disfigured after he saves Trescott's son from a fire. When Henry is branded a "monster" by the town's residents, Trescott vows to shelter and care for him, resulting in his family's exclusion from the community. The novella reflects upon the 19th-century social divide and ethnic tensions in America. The fictional town of Whilomville, which is used in 14 other Crane stories, was based on Port Jervis, New York, where Crane lived with his family for a few years during his youth. It is thought that he took inspiration from several local men who were similarly disfigured, although modern critics have made numerous connections between the story and the 1892 lynching in Port Jervis of a man of color named Robert Lewis.

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.