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Stephen Crane (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Stephen Crane is best known as a novelist and short-story writer, and deservedly so. His first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) was an early and almost pure example of naturalistic fiction. About the time of his twenty-fourth birthday, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) made him famous. Of his other novels—George’s Mother (1896), The Third Violet (1897), Active Service (1899), and The O’Ruddy: A Romance (1903; with Robert Barr)—only The Monster (1899), a novella, may lay claim to greatness....
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Death and the Child (Short Stories) -
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Experiment in Misery, An (Short Stories) -
Maggie (Masterplots Classics) -
Maggie (Censorship) -
Maggie (Character Profiles) -
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Monster, The (Short Stories) -
Open Boat, The (Short Stories) -
Open Boat, The (Magill Book Reviews) -
Red Badge of Courage, The (Masterplots Classics) -
Red Badge of Courage, The (Censorship) -
Red Badge of Courage, The (Character Profiles) -
Red Badge of Courage, The (Identities and Issues) -
Red Badge of Courage, The (Literary Places) -
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Upturned Face, The (Short Stories) -
Naturalistic Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Novella, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890 (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
English and American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction) -
Turn of the Twentieth Century: 1880- 1920, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
