A comprehensive anthology of the 112 short stories and sketches of the 19th century American author.

This meticulously edited short story collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Table of Contents: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets George's Mother The Third Violet The Monster The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War: The Little Regiment Three Miraculous Soldiers A Mystery of Heroism An Indiana Campaign A Grey Sleeve The Veteran The Open Boat and Other Stories: The Open Boat A Man and Some Others The Bride comes to Yellow Sky The Wise Men The Five White Mice Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure Horses Death and the Child An Experiment in Misery The Men in the Storm The Dual that was not Fought An Ominous Baby A Great Mistake An Eloquence of Grief The Auction The Pace of Youth A Detail Blue Hotel His New Mittens Whilomville Stories: The Angel Child Lynx-Hunting The Lover and the Telltale "Showin' Off" Making an Orator Shame The Carriage-Lamps The Knife The Stove The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps The Fight The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers A Little Pilgrimage Wounds in the Rain – War Stories: The Price of the Harness The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins The Clan of No-Name God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen The Revenge of the Adolphus The Sergeant's Private Madhouse Virtue in War Marines Signalling under Fire at Guantanamo This Majestic Lie War Memories The Second Generation Great Battles of the World: Vittoria The Siege of Plevna The Storming of Burkersdorf Heights A Swede's Campaign in Germany The Storming of Badajoz The Brief Campaign Against New Orleans The Battle of Solferino The Battle of Bunker Hill Last Words: The Reluctant Voyagers Spitzbergen Tales Wyoming Valley Tales London Impressions New York Sketches The Assassins in Modern Battles Irish Notes Sullivan County Sketches Miscellaneous Other Short Stories: The Black Dog A Tent in Agony An Experiment in Luxury The Judgement of the Sage The Scotch Express Marines Signaling Under Fire at Guantanamo Twelve O'Clock The Great Boer Trek A Dark-Brown Dog Manacled The Woof of Thin Red Threads

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.

This collection offers the complete poems of Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900), as well as essays on him by Joseph Conrad and Willa Cather. One of the best short story writers of all time, Crane was also an important poet who established laconic precision as the dominant style of free verse. His followers included such authors as Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams and e.e. cummings. Without any doubt, Crane should be regarded as the father of modern-days' literary minimalism.

For the first time all 112 of Stephen Crane’s short stories and sketches—including several that have not been included in any previous collection and two that are now in print for the first time—have been brought together in one volume. Critics call Stephen Crane, who is best known for his Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, the first “modern” American writer. Crane was only twenty-eight when he died, but his work had a profound influence on American letters. He helped to kill sentimentality in American writing, giving this country’s fiction renewed strength and dignity as an art form. Crane is considered the American counterpart of such European Nationalists as Zola, Tolstoy, and Flaubert. He refused to bow to the conventions of the day or to popular taste, but wrote about life as he saw it in the closing years of the nineteenth century. And “honest vision of life” was the foundation stone of his artistic aims, and so he sought first-hand experiences and personal involvement in his themes. He lived the life of “The Open Boat” before he wrote the story. His stories of war and conflict, such as “A Mystery of Heroism” and “Virtue in War,” reflect his experiences as a war correspondent. Crane strove for originality in his writing; “his style—tense, darting, abrupt, ironic—blends perfectly with an impressionistic technique to give emotional, psychological, and symbolic significance to a series of astutely observed and richly colored episodes.” The stories and sketches that were a product of his one-man literary revolution are as “modern” today as ever. This collection includes an authoritative introduction by the editor, in which he evaluates the artistic significance of Crane’s work. The stories ad sketches are presented in chronological order and have been carefully edited to ensure that they are in their original form.

This is a full-length study of Crane's short stories, tracing their formal development and relating Crane's work to the aesthetic principles of American modernism. As mirrors of his time, Crane's stories reflected the major forces that transformed American life between 1850 and 1900: the Civil War, industrialism and the rise of cities and slums, and the disappearance of the American frontier. Consequently, the predominant theme of much of Crane's work is the conflict between chaos and order, emphasizing what Crane saw as man's fragmented perception of reality. In his search for meaning in human existence, Crane turned to ritual in his late fiction. ISBN 0-8057-8315-6: $18.95.