Stephen Crane

"A volte guardava i feriti con invidia, pensando che chi aveva il corpo lacerato fosse particolarmente felice. Avrebbe voluto..."

No nation has ever achieved the literary diversity of America. From nativist humor to immigrant triumph, Americans have recorded their visions and hopes better than anyone....

Represented here are 16 short stories by seven great American writers, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries....

"El bote a la deriva" ("The Open Boat"). Originalmente publicado en Scribner’s Magazine, 21 de mayo 1894...

Stephen Crane is best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, but he also wrote a number of powerful short stories....

Stephen wrote astonishingly realistic stories of men under the stress of battle, the most famous being The Read Badge of Courage....

Stephen Crane's fascinating story "The Blue Hotel" is seen by many as a study of fear....

A masterpiece about a young private in the Union Army whose youthful enthusiasm about the glory of Civil War battle gives way to increasing doubt and worry....

One of the great war novels, The Red Badge of Courage describes the first experience of front-line combat through the eyes of a young recruit...

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the 19th century....

This is a story from the Classic American Short Stories collection....

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, poet and journalist....

In Henry Flemming, Stephen Crane creates a great and realistic study of the mind of an inexperienced soldier trapped in the fury and turmoil of war. Flemming dashes into battle, at first tormented by fear, then bolstered with courage in time for the final confrontation. Although the exact battle...

In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war...

The Red Badge of Courage is one of the most psychologically penetrating war novels ever written. Published in 1895, Stephen Crane’s groundbreaking work strips away romantic notions of heroism to reveal war as it is experienced from the inside—through fear, confusion, shame, and hard-earned...

Esta narración es una historia enigmática; un relato escalofriante en el que en ningún momento se sabe exactamente qué sucede ni por qué.

In the quiet frontier town of Yellow Sky, order depends on routine, reputation, and one man—Marshal Jack Potter. But on a long train ride from San Antonio, Potter has done something unthinkable. He has married without warning his town, and now returns with his new bride to face the judgment of...

Henry Fleming, a young soldier in the American Civil War, grapples with fear, courage, and the realities of battle. He joins the Union army with grandiose ideas of heroism, but when he faces the brutal truth of war, he is overcome by fear and runs from the battlefield in his first encounter with...

Originally published pseudonymously in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets follows the tragic tale of Maggie and her life in the harsh streets and tenements of the New York City Bowery district. Initially rejected by publishers for being viewed as too brutal and accurate in its descriptions of...

"An Experiment in Misery" in a story similar to "The Men in the Storm" except that it focuses on one character, and a new fellow traveler called the Assassin, who struggle for warmth and a place for the night....