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

Stephen Crane's "The Complete Novels & Novellas" showcases the diverse literary style and themes explored by the influential American author. Known for his realistic portrayals of war and society, Crane's works often focus on the human experience and the struggles faced by individuals. His use of vivid imagery and raw emotion creates a powerful narrative that draws readers into the harsh realities of life. The collection includes iconic novels such as "The Red Badge of Courage" and novellas like "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets", providing a comprehensive look at Crane's literary contributions to American literature. Set against the backdrop of the late 19th century, Crane's works offer valuable insights into the social and political issues of his time, making them highly relevant to modern readers. Stephen Crane's personal experiences as a war correspondent and his observations of human nature undoubtedly influenced his writing, shaping his unique perspective on the world. His ability to capture the complexities of life with honesty and depth makes "The Complete Novels & Novellas" a must-read for anyone interested in classic American literature and the human condition.

This edition explores Crane's work from a fresh critical perspective and introduces new research on the imaginative relationship between Crane's novel and the Civil War. (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).

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.

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.

“A man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his vision—he is merely responsible for his quality of personal honesty.” In the course of his tragically abbreviated career, Stephen Crane (1871–1900) saw things that his contemporaries preferred to overlook—the low life of New York’s Irish slums; the tedium, brutality, and chaos that were the true conditions of the Civil War; the ambiguous contract that binds a terrified man to his killer and the damned to their human judges. He communicated what he saw with the same laconic factuality that characterized his journalism and, in the process, laid the foundations for the unblinking realism of Hemingway and Dos Passos. The Portable Stephen Crane allows us to appreciate the full scope and power of this writer’s vision. It contains three complete novels—Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, George’s Mother, and Crane’s masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage; nineteen short stories and sketches, including “The Blue Hotel” and “The Open Boat,” a barely fictionalized account of his own escape from shipwreck while covering the Cuban revolt against Spain; the previously unpublished essay “Above All Things”; letters and poems, plus a critical essay and notes by the noted Crane scholar Joseph Katz.