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A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devils Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths."Run, Jimmie, run! Deyll get yehs," screamed a retreating Rum Alley child."Naw," responded Jimmie with a valiant roar, "dese micks cant make me run."Howls of renewed wrath went up from Devils Row throats. Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel heap. On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of true assassins. As they charged, they threw stones and cursed in shrill chorus.

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane. It is considered one of the most influential works in American literature. The novel, a depiction on the cruelty of the American Civil War, features a young recruit who overcomes initial fears to become a hero on the battlefield. The book made Crane an international success. Although he was born after the war and had not at the time experienced battle firsthand, the novel is considered an example of Realism.

Published thirty years after the Civil War, this "impressionistic" American classic tells a war story in a thoroughly modern way - without a trace of romanticizing. Through the eyes of ordinary soldier Henry Fleming, we follow his psychological turmoil, from the excitement of patriotism to the bloody realities of battle and his flight from it. In the end, he overcomes his fear and disillusionment, and fights with courage.

"Maggie. Ragazza di strada" e uno dei grandi romanzi che chiudono lOttocento americano, ma che, per temi trattati e tecniche stilistiche, si proietta ormai ben dentro il Novecento. La storia e quella di una ragazza dei bassifondi newyorkesi, operaia in una fabbrica di colletti e polsini, con un retroterra familiare disastrato, fra poverta, violenza e alcolismo. La conoscenza di Pete lillude di potersi staccare da quellambiente: ma Pete non e il bianco cavaliere che lei crede... Accompagnano questa nuova edizione italiana del romanzo alcune storie newyorkesi che Crane scrisse negli anni intorno a Maggie e che confermano la sua qualita di scrittore e interprete della nuova realta metropolitana.

The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (18711900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer, who carries a flag.Although Crane was born after the war, and had not at the time experienced battle first-hand, the novel is known for its realism and naturalism.He began writing what would become his second novel in 1894, using various contemporary and written accounts (such as those published previously by Century Magazine) as inspiration. It is believed that he based the fictional battle on that of Chancellorsville; he may also have interviewed veterans of the 124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commonly known as the Orange Blossoms. Initially shortened and serialized in newspapers in December 1894, the novel was published in full in October 1895. A longer version of the work, based on Cranes original manuscript, was published in 1982.The novel is known for its distinctive style, which includes realistic battle sequences as well as the repeated use of color imagery, and ironic tone. Separating itself from a traditional war narrative, Cranes story reflects the inner experience of its protagonist (a soldier fleeing from combat) rather than the external world around him.Also notable for its use of what Crane called a "psychological portrayal of fear", the novels allegorical and symbolic qualities are often debated by critics. Several of the themes that the story explores are maturation, heroism, cowardice, and the indifference of nature.

Stephen Crane es uno de los notables escritores estadunidenses que combinaron la literatura con el periodismo. Corresponsal en México, en 1895, se interesó por los rincones de nuestra geografía, los pormenores de nuestra cultura y los rostros de nuestros habitantes.

"En medio de la tormenta se revelaba que la vanidad del hombre era el verdadero motor de la vida" S. C. En un pueblecito perdido de Nebraska se levanta un hotel pintado de un vistoso color azul, cercano a la estación de tren, que regenta un irlandés. Atento a su negocio, una mañana de invierno ve que de un vagón de pasajeros se apean tres hombres e inmediatamente los convence para que se alojen en su hotel. Al calor de una estufa, mientras fuera ruge una descomunal ventisca, se organiza una partida de cartas que acaba con la acusación por parte de un jugador de que otro hace trampas, seguida de una violenta pelea y un imprevisto desenlace. La prosa de Crane, en la que coexisten la densidad y la ligereza, es el vehículo idóneo que le sirve para describir las fuerzas a veces indefinibles que alientan en sus personajes. En El hotel azul, el miedo y la muerte es el persistente leitmotiv que da sentido a la historia.

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Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man''s experience fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane''s reading of popular descriptions of battle. This volume also includes the short stories ''The Open Boat''(1898), ''The Monster''(1899), and ''The Blue Hotel''. The editors explore Crane''s work from a fresh critical perspective, focusing on his role as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy, and his social as well as literary revisionism. Like the Carroll volume above, this edition of the seasoned veteran provides a new twist. Crane''s Badge was originally serialized in the New York Press in 1894, a year before the story was published in novel form. This volume offers both the slightly different serial version and the finished work. Though every library no doubt has numerous copies of Red Badge, academic and public libraries supporting American literature curricula should pop for this one, too, especially at the price. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Novel of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane, published in 1895 and considered to be his masterwork for its perceptive depiction of warfare and of the psychological turmoil of the soldier. Crane had had no experience of war when he wrote the novel, which he based partly on a popular anthology, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. The Red Badge of Courage has been called the first modern war novel because, uniquely for its time, it tells of the experience of war from the point of view of an ordinary soldier. Henry Fleming is eager to demonstrate his patriotism in a glorious battle, but when the slaughter starts, he is overwhelmed with fear and flees the battlefield. Ironically, he receives his ''red badge of courage'' when he is slightly wounded by being struck on the head by a deserter. He witnesses a friend''s gruesome death and becomes enraged at the injustice of war. The courage of common soldiers and the agonies of death cure him of his romantic notions. He returns to his regiment and continues to fight on with true courage and without illusions. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature The Red Badge of Courage has long been considered the first great modern&

In "Active Service" Mr. Stephen Crane has applied his literary method, which aptly suits the unusual, to the commonplace. A battleeld stands Mr. Cranes descriptive staccato. A newspaper ofce does not. So far as the reader goes, the result is a story which opens with interest and closes with confused dull talk and incident. Mr. Crane has taken the new Sunday supplement newspaper man, had him fall in love with the daughter of a professor of Greek, put the professor, his family, and a chorus of students in the vortex of the Greek war and let the hero rescue them, with a comic opera singer thrown in to play Potiphars wife to the Sunday supplement mans Joseph. This ought to be interesting to the end, but it is interesting only abont to the middle, the illusion of reality being lost midway. Now Mr. Crane is a realist.

Maggie is one of the most known works of the author. This story, perfectly laid out in New Yorks Bowery, dealt with doings and sayings of the people of the slums,a reflection of the scenes and actions of city life as Crane saw it. While this work made no great impression on the general public, it brought the author to the attention of many literary men, especially William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland, who encouraged Crane and helped him whenever they could find opportunity.

"Great Battles Of The Great War" is a masterwork of historical battle narratives of the First World War. Stephen Crane published this book for the Daily Chronicle. There are numerous maps added and it offers a perfect understanding of many military actions in the course of the war.Contents:I. The Heroic Defence Of LiegeII. The Occupation Of Brussels.III. The Giant Conflict At MonsIV. The Masterly British Retreat.V. How Retreat Led To VictoryVI. Louvain: The Brand Of ShameVII. The Dramatic Turning PointVIII. Paris Prepares For SiegeIX. The Battle Of The MarneX. The Germans Hurled BackXI. The Battle Of The RiversXII. A Historic Tug-Of-WarXIII. The Fall Of AntwerpXIV. The Fight For The ChannelXV. Britannia Rules The WavesXVI. At Helgoland And ElsewhereXVII. Losses And Gains At SeaXVIII. The Eastern CampaignXIX. The Conquering RussiansXX. The Clash Of Slav And TeutonXXI. Great Events On The Vistula

A vividness of portraiture which puts The Third Violet on a high levelhigher, we think, than Mr. Cranes very different Maggie, though perhaps lower than The Little Regiment, which is also very different. In his present book Mr. Crane is more the rival of Mr. Henry James than of Mr. Rudyard Kipling. But he is intensely American, which can hardly be said of Mr. Henry James, and it is possible that if he continues in his present line of writing he may be the author who will introduce the United States to the ordinary English world. We have never come across a book that brought certain sections of American society so perfectly before the reader as does The Third Violet. The picture is an extremely pleasant one, and its truth appeals to the English reader, so that the effect of the book is to draw him nearer to his American cousins. The Third Violet incidentally contains the best dog that we have come across in modern fiction. Mr. Cranes dialogue is excellent, and it is dialogue of a type for which neither The Red Badge of Courage nor his other books had prepared us.

This edition contains Cranes best stories dealing with wars and the military. The extraordinary power of imagination is more wonderful than that of Defoe. It is in dialogue that he is at his strongest, for in this the words are used as the soldiers would have used them.Contents:The Little RegimentThree Miraculous SoldiersA Mystery Of HeroismAn Indiana CampaignA Grey SleeveThe VeteranThe Price of the HarnessThe Lone Charge Of William B. PerkinsThe Clan Of No-NameGod Rest Ye, Merry GentlemenThe Revenge of the AdolphusThe Sergeants Private MadhouseVirtue in WarMarines Signalling Under Fire At GuantanamoThis Majestic LieWar MemoriesThe Second Generation

En las arterias del desdichado barrio de Bowery en Nueva York, escenario de revueltas y vilezas perpetradas por las bandas de gángsteres, transcurre la historia de la joven Maggie, de su familia y de un entorno hipócrita y hostil, que ignora la compasión. Stephen Crane se erige por derecho propio como un autor al que conviene leer y revisar en estos momentos: su crítica del sistema, no de las personas, señala con el dedo la hipocresía más incrustada de nuestras estructuras sociales. Todo lo que no queremos ver, lo que nos duele escuchar y lo que nos resistimos a creer forma parte del paisaje literario de Crane. Una lectura atenta nos convence de que es un escritor con un plan: sumergirse en las entrañas de su amada América para expurgar de ellas todo su profundo malestar.

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devils Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths."Run, Jimmie, run! Deyll get yehs," screamed a retreating Rum Alley child."Naw," responded Jimmie with a valiant roar, "dese micks cant make me run."Howls of renewed wrath went up from Devils Row throats. Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel heap. On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of true assassins. As they charged, they threw stones and cursed in shrill chorus.