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Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume 23
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Language
English
Description
A critical interpretation of Crane and his work.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
World famous at twenty-four, brilliant, reckless, and ultimately tragic, Stephen Crane is a dramatic study in contradictions. His most famous work, The Red Badge of Courage, is a classic antiwar novel, yet Crane himself longed for military honors. The son of a repressive Methodist minister who preached that reading novels was a vice, he used his literary stature to help defend a prostitute against the corrupt New York City police, which ruined his...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Stephen Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage, which was published in 1893 when the Civil War was still fresh in the public mind.
10) The blue hotel
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Nebraska in the 1880's is bleak, lonely, and far from what the Wild West is purported to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of the blue hotel represent the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince the Swede that his dime-store notions about the West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him and in his terror he turns everybody against him; the story inevitably ends in tragedy. However, who is responsible?...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the final days of literary master Stephen Crane is set in the underworld of turn-of-the-century New York and follows his death-bed dictation of his final novel, "The Painted Boy," while biding farewell to a long-time love