The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Stephen Crane died at the age of 28 in Germany. In his short life, he produced stories that are among the most enduring in the history of American ficiton. The Red Badge of Courage m[...]

The reputation of prose masterpieces like "The Red Badge of Courage" and "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" ought never obscure Stephen Crane's singular contribution to American poetry. In "The Black Riders" (1895), "War Is Kind" (1899), and the best of his uncollected poems, Crane forged his own idiom[...]

"The Red Badge of Courage", written in 1895 by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest of all American novels. This is a book about the Civil War, and one Union soldier's struggle with his inner demons as he prepares for, and fights his first battl[...]

This unflinching portrayal of the squalor and brutality of New York life produced a scandal when it was published in 1893. Crane's novel tells the story of Maggie Johnson, a young woman who, seduced by her brother's friend and then disowned by her family, turns to prostitution. More than the tale of[...]

First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the re[...]

With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of 'The Red Badge of Courage'. Stephen Crane's short, compact life - 'a life of fire, 'he called it - continues to be surrounded by myths and half-truths, distortions and outright fabrications. Mindf[...]

The glory, pride, horror, and cowardice that are associated with war are depicted in a classic account of a young soldier's Civil War experiences[...]

An abridged version of the tale set in the spring of 1863 when, while engaged in the fierce battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.An abridged version of the tale set in the[...]