The Open Boat (Heathen Short)
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
02.01.2026
Verlag
Heathen ShortsSeitenzahl
70
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/0,4 cm
Gewicht
102 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798900750040
Stephen Crane (1871-1900), in his short life, was a prolific American poet and author now recognized as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Working in the Realist and literary Naturalism traditions, Crane penned several notable works - including what many consider his crowning achievement, "The Open Boat." In January 1898, while traveling as a newspaper correspondent, Crane survived a shipwreck off the coast of Florida and was stranded at sea with three other men for thirty hours. First written as a report, then adapted into fiction, "The Open Boat" recounts the harrowing ordeal: four men clawing at survival in a coffin-sized dinghy, tossed like refuse by an indifferent sea, rowing toward a shore that may not want them. Crane's prose is lean as bone, stripped of sentiment, and soaked in salt and futility. First published in Scribner's Magazine, then collected in The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, this is not a tale of triumph but a parable of cosmic cruelty - where death rows beside them, silent and patient, and the only mercy is that the boat leaks slow enough to tell the story.
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