![]() ![]() Crane's first book, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, was about an innocent slum girl and how she fell into the world of prostitution. You will find other great stories listed on this page, including An Experiment in Misery and his "uknown sequel" to The Red Badge of Courage, The Veteran, and In the Depths of a Coal Mine. For students and teachers, we offer a helpful Study Guide. A Dark Brown Dog is a superlative effort and well-known to short enthusiasts. It also brought Crane international fame and modest wealth.Ĭrane is less well known for his short stories, poems, and essays but the modern reader will discover that he produced excellent work beyond his widely known novel. ![]() The Red Badge of Courage has become one of the mostly widely read and influential war stories of all time. The title itself is born from his longing for a battle wound, a "red badge of courage", to help conceal his cowardice after he fled from a battle while overcome with fear. His best known novel is, of course, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) an impressionistic novel about Henry Fleming, a soldier participating in the Civil War who experiences and struggles with cowardice and bravery on the field of battle. Though he never fought in battle himself, he created stories about the battlefield that were so realistic that veterans reading his work thirty years after the war had ended praised it for its realism and ability to capture the true feelings and images of combat. Yet his fame and fortune were interwoven with that war. ![]() American novelist, short story writer, and poet Stephen Crane was born November 1st, 1871 six years after the American Civil War had ended. ![]()
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