A depiction of the American Civil War. It features a young recruit who overcomes initial fears to become a hero on the battlefield.

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

Good Press Publishing presents to you this meticulously edited Stephen Crane collection:_x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ Novels and Novellas:_x000D_ The Red Badge of Courage_x000D_ Maggie: A Girl of the Streets_x000D_ George's Mother_x000D_ The Third Violet_x000D_ Active Service_x000D_ The Monster_x000D_ The O'Ruddy_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War:_x000D_ The Little Regiment_x000D_ Three Miraculous Soldiers_x000D_ A Mystery of Heroism_x000D_ An Indiana Campaign_x000D_ A Grey Sleeve_x000D_ The Veteran_x000D_ The Open Boat and Other Stories:_x000D_ The Open Boat_x000D_ A Man and Some Others_x000D_ The Bride comes to Yellow Sky_x000D_ The Wise Men_x000D_ The Five White Mice_x000D_ Flanagan and His Short_x000D_ Filibustering Adventure_x000D_ Horses_x000D_ Death and the Child_x000D_ An Experiment in Misery_x000D_ The Men in the Storm_x000D_ The Dual that was not Fought_x000D_ An Ominous Baby_x000D_ A Great Mistake_x000D_ An Eloquence of Grief_x000D_ The Auction_x000D_ The Pace of Youth_x000D_ A Detail_x000D_ Blue Hotel_x000D_ His New Mittens_x000D_ Whilomville Stories:_x000D_ The Angel Child_x000D_ Lynx-Hunting_x000D_ The Lover and the Telltale_x000D_ "Showin' Off"_x000D_ Making an Orator_x000D_ Shame_x000D_ The Carriage-Lamps_x000D_ The Knife_x000D_ The Stove_x000D_ The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps_x000D_ The Fight_x000D_ The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers_x000D_ A Little Pilgrimage_x000D_ Wounds in the Rain – War Stories:_x000D_ The Price of the Harness_x000D_ The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins_x000D_ The Clan of No-Name_x000D_ God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen_x000D_ The Revenge of the Adolphus_x000D_ The Sergeant's Private Madhouse_x000D_ Virtue in War_x000D_ Marines Signalling under Fire at Guantanamo_x000D_ This Majestic Lie_x000D_ War Memories_x000D_ The Second Generation_x000D_ Great Battles of the World:_x000D_ Vittoria_x000D_ The Siege of Plevna_x000D_ The Storming of Burkersdorf Heights_x000D_ A Swede's Campaign in Germany_x000D_ The Storming of Badajoz_x000D_ The Brief Campaign Against New Orleans_x000D_ The Battle of Solferino_x000D_ The Battle of Bunker Hill_x000D_ Last Words:_x000D_ The Reluctant Voyagers_x000D_ Spitzbergen Tales_x000D_ Wyoming Valley Tales_x000D_ London Impressions_x000D_ New York Sketches_x000D_ The Assassins in Modern Battles_x000D_ Irish Notes_x000D_ Sullivan County Sketches_x000D_ Miscellaneous_x000D_ The Black Dog _x000D_ A Tent in Agony_x000D_ An Experiment in Luxury_x000D_ The Scotch Express_x000D_ Twelve O'Clock_x000D_ Manacled_x000D_ A Dark-Brown Dog..._x000D_ Poetry:_x000D_ The Black Riders and Other Lines_x000D_ War is Kind_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

Revealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintances This book collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. Although Crane is widely regarded as a major American author, conclusions about his life, work, and thought remain obscure due to the difficulties in separating fact from fiction. His first biographer recorded mostly vague impressions and, to mythologize his subject, invented a multitude of the episodes and letters used in his account of Crane’s life. Subsequent biographies were either cursory summations or compendiums of verifiable facts. Crane himself was both reclusive and mercurial, protective of his inner life while projecting a variety of personae to suit others. A flamboyant personality and close friend of writers such as William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad, Crane made telling impressions on his contemporaries. They often constitute the best assessments of Crane’s own personality and work. The 90 reminiscences gathered here offer a much-needed account of Crane’s life from a variety of viewpoints, as well as important information about the contributors themselves.

This is the only biography by a leading American poet of the great American writer, Stephen Crane. John Berryman originally wrote this book in 1950 for the distinguished "American Men of Letters" series, and revised it twelve years later. This edition reproduces the later version. In Stephen Crane, Berryman assesses the writings and life of a man whose work has been one of the most powerful influences on modern writers. As Edmund Wilson said in The New Yorker, "Mr. Berryman's work is an important one, and not merely because at the moment it stands alone...We are not likely soon to get anything better on the critical and psychological sides." It is Berryman's special insight into Crane as a poet that makes this book unique.

Crane's complete novels are accompanied by his poetry and, arranged by place and time, his short stories, sketches and newspaper articles.

Collection of tales and newspaper articles, including some of the author's earliest works.