Stephen Crane: Prose and Poetry (LOA #18) by
Here in one volume are all of Stephen Crane's best-known works, including the novelsThe Red Badge of Courage, about a young and confused Union soldier under fire for the first time; Maggie- A Girl of the Streets, a vivid portrait of slum life and a young girl's fall; George's Mother, about New York's Bowery and its effect on a young workingman; The Third Violet, about a bohemian artist's country romance; and The Monster, a novella about sacrifice and rescue. The stories collected here include masterpieces like "The Open Boat," "The Blue Hotel," and "The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky," as well as tales of childhood in small-town America. In his journalism, the best of which is presented here, Crane covered the Spanish-American and Grego-Turkish wars, traveled through Mexico and the West, and reported on the seamier sides of New York City life. The volume concludes withThe Black Riders and War Is Kind, collections of epigrammatic free verse that look back to Emily Dickinson and forward to Imagism. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Novels and Novellas
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
George’s Mother (1896)
The Third Violet (1896-97)
The Monster (1898)
Stories, Sketches, and Journalism
The selections are arranged in the volume chronologically by place.
They are listed below in alphabetical order.
Adventures of a Novelist
“And If He Wills, We Must Die”
The Angel-Child
The Art Students’ League Building
Avon’s School by the Sea
Ballydehob
The Black Dog
The Blue Hotel
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
The Broken-Down Van
The Carriage-Lamps
The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers
The Clan of No-Name
Concerning the English “Academy”
Coney Island’s Failing Days
Crane at Velestino
A Dark-Brown Dog
Death and the Child
An Eloquence of Grief
An Episode of War
An Excursion Ticket
An Experiment in Luxury
An Experiment in Misery
The Fight
The Fire
A Fishing Village
The Five White Mice
Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure
Four Men in a Cave
Galveston, Texas, in 1895
A Ghoul’s Accountant
“God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen”
A Great Mistake
Greek War Correspondents
A Grey Sleeve
Harold Frederic
His New Mittens
Howells Discussed at Avon-by-the-Sea
Howells Fears the Realists Must Wait
Hunting Wild Hogs
In a Park Row Restaurant
In the Depths of a Coal Mine
The Kicking Twelfth
Killing His Bear
The Knife
The Last of the Mohicans
The Little Regiment
London Impressions
The Lover and the Tell-Tale
Lynx-Hunting
A Man and Some Others
Manacled
Marines Signaling Under Fire at Guantanamo
The Men in the Storm
The Mesmeric Mountain
The Mexican Lower Classes.
Mr. Binks’ Day Off
Moonlight on the Snow .
A Mystery of Heroism: A Detail of an American Battle
Nebraska’s Bitter Fight for Life
New York’s Bicycle Speedway
The Octopush
An Ominous Baby
On the Boardwalk
One Dash—Horses
The Open Boat
Opium’s Varied Dreams
The Pace of Youth
Parades and Entertainments
A Poker Game
The Price of the Harness
Regulars Get No Glory
The Revenge of the Adolphus
The Royal Irish Constabulary
The Second Generation
Seen at Hot Springs
Shame
“Showin’ Off”
The Shrapnel of Their Friends
Stephen Crane at the Front for the World
Stephen Crane in Mexico (II)
Stephen Crane in Texas
Stephen Crane Tells of War’s Horrors
Stephen Crane’s Own Story
Stephen Crane’s Vivid Story of the Battle of San Juan
Stories Told by an Artist
A Tent in Agony
This Majestic Lie
The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps
Twelve O’Clock
The Upturned Face
The Veteran
Virtue in War
When Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers
The Wise Men: A Detail of American Life in Mexico
Poems
The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)
War Is Kind (1899)
Uncollected Poems