Stephen Crane
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English
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As a detachment of Union soldiers trains and prepares for their first Civil War battle, a young private worries about his ability to endure the horror of the battlefield. His fellow soldiers seem to him to be fearless in the face of the coming conflict. He does indeed lose his courage in his first action and flees in panic, only to recover himself and return to his regiment to fight bravely.
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Young Henry Fleming had always dreamt of performing heroic deeds in battle. But as a raw recruit in the American Civil War, the reality if one of mental and physical torment. Throughout his first ordeal in action, Henry experiences both fear and self-doubt, and has no idea whether war will make him a coward - or a hero.
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Library of America volume 18
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Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
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English
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Crane's complete novels are accompanied by his poetry and, arranged by place and time, his short stories, sketches and newspaper articles.
9) Poems
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Crowell
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[1964].
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English
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Novelist, foreign correspondent, and short story writer, Stephen Crane also produced two volumes of verse from which Gerald McDonald has selected these amazingly contemporary poems.
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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"This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor. It remains both "powerful, severe, and harshly comic" (in Alfred Kazin's words) and a masterpiece of modern American prose."...