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The Complete Short Stories of Stephen Crane

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The Complete Short Stories of Stephen Crane
AuthorStephen Crane
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Why it’s on the listCrane’s short fiction collected — “The Open Boat,” written out of surviving a shipwreck off Florida; “The Blue Hotel”; “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”; “The Monster.” His characters’ courage and cowardice turn out to be products of circumstance rather than properties they own, which is why he is read as the central American naturalist.

The Complete Short Stories of Stephen Crane

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Stephen Crane (1871–1900) published Maggie: A Girl of the Streets at 21 and The Red Badge of Courage at 23, worked as a war correspondent in Greece and Cuba, and died of tuberculosis at 28 — all of this fiction was written inside a career of about nine years. The edition the list links is a modern digital compilation rather than a scholarly edition.

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