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Short stories from the author of The Red Badge of Courage.
Mr. Crane’s book is another contribution to the humorous study of boy nature, inaugurated by Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer,” Mr. Anstey’s “Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers,” Mr. Eden Phillpotts’ “The Human Boy,” and Mr. Kipling’s “Stalky and Co.” Mr. Stephen Crane believed these “Whilomville Stories” to contain his best work.
Stephen Crane's Whilomville Stories consists of thirteen, self-contained short stories primarily about the children of a sleepy, fictional town called Whilomville. The Whilomville Stories were part of a new subgenre of short stories, generally featured in "quality" magazines like Harper's or the Atlantic Monthly which were linked by a common set of characters and setting. The stories are upbeat, light, and quick reads – yet they are not without the edge of critique, particularly of race relations, indulgent parenting, pointless education systems, and more broadly, the dark side of human nature while engaging readily in a tradition of distinctly American idioms, situations, images, and history.
CONTENTS
I. THE ANGEL CHILD
II. LYNX-HUNTING
III. THE LOVER AND THE TELLTALE
IV. "SHOWIN' OFF"
V. MAKING AN ORATOR
VI. SHAME
VII. THE CARRIAGE-LAMPS
VIII. THE KNIFE IX. THE STOVE
X. THE TRIAL, EXECUTION, AND BURIAL OF HOMER PHELPS
XI. THE FIGHT
XII. THE CITY URCHIN AND THE CHASTE VILLAGERS
XIII. A LITTLE PILGRIMAGE
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About the Author:
The American novelist Stephen Crane is now recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Having won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel ‘The Red Badge of Courage’, Crane was prolific throughout his short life, creating notable works in the Realist and American Naturalism traditions. Stephen Crane began writing early in life, and was already a published author by the age of sixteen. Among Crane s best known works are Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which is considered to be the first literary work in the early American tradition of Naturalism, a literary movement marked by detailed realism and the acknowledgement of social conditions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and The Red Badge of Courage, which was influenced by his own experiences in military school and personal contact with Civil-War veterans. Crane died in 1900 at the age twenty-eight of tuberculosis, but had a significant and lasting impact on twentieth-century literature, influencing early modernist writers such as Ernest Hemingway.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1493722700
- ISBN 13 9781493722709
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages170
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