Stephen Crane

Broschiertes Buch

The Open Boat and Other Stories

Beschreibung

American author Stephen Crane, best known for his classic novel of the American Civil War, "The Red Badge of Courage", was a prolific writer of short stories. His tales are some of the earliest American examples of Naturalism, Impressionism, and the Realist literary movement. Collected together here in this volume, "The Open Boat and Other Stories" are some of his most popular and famous shorter works. In the titular story, "The Open Boat" we find four shipwrecked sailors, the correspondent, the captain, the cook, and the oiler, who find themselves in the desperate situation of being adrift in the open sea. The eight other stories included in this volume are "The Veteran", "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", "The Men in the Storm", "The Monster", "The Blue Hotel", "His New Mittens", "A Self-Made Man", and "The Upturned Face". This representative selection of Stephen Crane’s short stories will delight and entertain fans of this famous American author. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Autor

Stephen Crane wrote this novel with no first-hand familiarity with war, but it was praised by Civil War veterans as an authentic depiction of their battlefield experiences and emotions. Crane was interested in war stories and enjoyed creative writing as a child. He began his professional career as a journalist at the age of 16, and later became a war correspondent in the Greco-Turkish conflict and the Spanish American War in Cuba. Other important works include the novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; short stories "The Open Boat," "The Monster," and "The Blue Hotel"; and poems "The Black Riders" and "War is Kind." Stephen Crane died of Tuberculosis at the age of 29.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Digireads.com
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781420961638
• ISBN-10: 1420961632
• Artikelnr.: 57003121