"it may strike in. Who wants a meal of horseradish?"" Crane himself thought ""The Black Riders"" a superior work to his more famous novel ""The Red Badge of Courage"". As he wrote, ""the former is the more ambitious effort. In it, I am to give my ideas of life as a whole, so far as I know it, and the latter is a mere episode,—an amplification"". The Black Riders and Other Lines The Black Riders and Other Lines is a book of poetry written by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). It was first published in 1895 by Copeland & Day."
"poetry, and plays, Crane saw life at its rawest, in slums and on battlefields. His haunting Civil War novel, ""The Red Badge of Courage,"" was published to great acclaim in 1895, but he barely had time to bask in the attention before he died, at 28, having neglected his health. He has enjoyed continued success ever since—as a champion of the common man, a realist, and a symbolist. Crane's """" (1893), is one of the best, if not the earliest, naturalistic American novel. It is the harrowing story of a poor, sensitive young girl whose uneducated, alcoholic parents utterly fail"
"emerges. In four years, Crane published five novels, two volumes of poetry, three short story collections, two books of war stories, and numerous works of short fiction and reporting. Today he is mainly remembered for ""The Red Badge of Courage"", which is regarded as an American classic. The novel has been adapted several times for the screen, including John Huston's 1951 version. By the time of his death, Crane had become one of the best known writers of his generation. His eccentric lifestyle, frequent newspaper reporting, association with other famous authors, and expatriate status made him somewhat of an international"
"""The Red Badge of Courage"" (1895), a novel based in the Civil War. The couple could not marry, but Cora took his surname, and they were together until his death from tuberculosis in 1900. Cora Crane became known as the first female war correspondent when she traveled with Stephen to Greece to cover the Greco-Turkish War (1897) for the New York press. She used the pen name of ""Imogene Carter."" After the war, the Cranes settled in England, socialized with the literary elite and joined the Fabian Society. While there, they camouflaged their limited finances and entertained lavishly. They leased"
"every day."" For the remainder of Crane's short career (he died from tuberculosis at the age of 28) ""The Red Badge of Courage"" served as the standard against which the rest of his works were compared. Appleton republished the novel again in 1917, shortly after the US entered World War I, reissuing it three additional times that same year. Since the resurgence of Crane's popularity in the 1920s, ""The Red Badge of Courage"" has been deemed a major American text, and Crane's most important work. While modern critics have noted Crane's ""anticipation of the modern spectacle of war"", others, such"
"and his work also received criticism from veterans of the war; one in particular, Alexander C. McClurg, a brigadier general who served through the Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns, wrote a lengthy letter to ""The Dial"" (which his publishing company owned) in April 1896, lambasting the novel as ""a vicious satire upon American soldiers and American armies."" Author and veteran Ambrose Bierce, popular for his Civil War-fiction, also expressed contempt for the novel and its writer. When a reviewer for ""The New York Journal"" referred to ""The Red Badge of Courage"" as a poor imitation of Bierce's work, Bierce responded by"
"Poetic lunacy would be a better name for the book."" In June, the ""New York Tribune"" dismissed the book as ""so much trash."" Crane was pleased that the book was ""making some stir"". In contrast to the reception for Crane's poetry, ""The Red Badge of Courage"" was welcomed with acclaim after its publication by Appleton in September 1895. For the next four months the book was in the top six on various bestseller lists around the country. It arrived on the literary scene ""like a flash of lightning out of a clear winter sky"", according to H. L. Mencken, who"
"emotionless as rocks."" Returning to these magazines during subsequent visits to the studio, he decided to write a war novel. He later stated that he ""had been unconsciously working the detail of the story out through most of his boyhood"" and had imagined ""war stories ever since he was out of knickerbockers."" At the time, Crane was intermittently employed as a free-lance writer, contributing articles to various New York City newspapers. He began writing what would become ""The Red Badge of Courage"" in June 1893, while living with his older brother Edmund in Lake View, New Jersey. Crane conceived the"
"the first major author to come from the interior of the country, and he captured its distinctive, humorous slang and iconoclasm. For Twain and other American writers of the late 19th century, realism was not merely a literary technique: It was a way of speaking truth and exploding worn-out conventions. Crane was primarily a journalist who also wrote fiction, essays, poetry, and plays. Crane saw life at its rawest, in slums and on battlefields. His haunting Civil War novel, ""The Red Badge of Courage"", was published to great acclaim in 1895, but he barely had time to bask in the"
"he became famous with ""The Red Badge of Courage"". Although similar to Crane's noted novel, ""The Little Regiment"" was believed to lack vigor and originality. Realizing the limitations of these tales, Crane wrote: ""I have invented the sum of my invention with regard to war and this story keeps me in internal despair."" ""The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure"" (1898) contains thirteen short stories that deal with three periods in Crane's life: his Asbury Park boyhood, his trip to the West and Mexico in 1895, and his Cuban adventure in 1897. This collection was well received and included"
"of shame. The novel expresses a strong connection between humankind and nature, a frequent and prominent concern in Crane's fiction and poetry throughout his career. Whereas contemporary writers (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau) focused on a sympathetic bond on the two elements, Crane wrote from the perspective that human consciousness distanced humans from nature. In ""The Red Badge of Courage"", this distance is paired with a great number of references to animals, and men with animalistic characteristics: people ""howl"", ""squawk"", ""growl"", or ""snarl"". Since the resurgence of Crane's popularity in the 1920s, ""The Red Badge of Courage"""
"Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling. He also established a working partnership with the young author and journalist Stephen Crane, whose novel ""The Red Badge of Courage"" became famous after it appeared in syndication. Several years later, Bacheller hired Crane to act as a war correspondent in Cuba during the insurrection against Spain; on the journey there, Crane's ship foundered off the coast of Florida, and he was stranded on a dinghy for two days. This experience resulted in his short story ""The Open Boat"". Irving Bacheller began to write fiction, publishing """"The Master of Silence"""" in 1892 and"
"congratulating them for exposing ""the Crane freak"". Some reviewers also found fault with Crane's narrative style, grammar mistakes, and apparent lack of traditional plot. While it eventually became a bestseller in the United States, ""The Red Badge of Courage"" was more popular and sold more rapidly in England when it was published in late 1895. Crane was delighted with his novel's success overseas, writing to a friend: ""I have only one pride and that is that the English edition of ""The Red Badge of Courage"" has been with great praise by the English reviewers. I am proud of this simply"
"the year after ""The Red Badge of Courage"", depicts an elderly Henry Fleming who specifically identifies his first combat experience as having occurred at Chancellorsville. ""The Red Badge of Courage"" has a distinctive style, which is often described as naturalistic, realistic, impressionistic or a mixture of the three. Told in a third-person limited point of view, the novel reflects the inner-experience of Henry Fleming, a young soldier who flees from combat, rather than upon the external world around him. ""The Red Badge of Courage"" is notable in its vivid descriptions and well-cadenced prose, both of which help create suspense within"
"wrote ""The Red Badge of Courage"" without any experience of war. He would, however, later serve as a war correspondent during the Greco-Turkish and Spanish–American Wars. Nevertheless, the realistic portrayal of the battlefield in ""The Red Badge of Courage"" has often misled readers into thinking that Crane (despite being born six years after the end of the Civil War) was himself a veteran. While trying to explain his ability to write about battle realistically, Crane stated: ""Of course, I have never been in a battle, but I believe that I got my sense of the rage of conflict on the"
"stand stolidly baring his furry belly to the missile, and die with an upward glance at the sympathetic heavens. On the contrary, he had fled as fast as his legs could carry him. ""The Red Badge of Courage"" received generally positive reviews from critics on its initial publication; in particular, it was said to be a remarkably modern and original work. Appleton's 1895 publication went through ten editions in the first year alone, making Crane an overnight success at the age of twenty-four. H. G. Wells, a friend of the author, later wrote that the novel was greeted by an"
"of tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium in Germany at the age of 28. At the time of his death, Crane was considered an important figure in American literature. After he was nearly forgotten for two decades, critics revived interest in his life and work. Crane's writing is characterized by vivid intensity, distinctive dialects, and irony. Common themes involve fear, spiritual crises and social isolation. Although recognized primarily for ""The Red Badge of Courage"", which has become an American classic, Crane is also known for his poetry, journalism, and short stories such as ""The Open Boat"", ""The Blue Hotel"", ""The"
"to terms with his situation, he is yet again forced into the fears of battle, which threaten to strip him of his enlightened identity. Joseph Hergesheimer wrote in his introduction to the 1925 Knopf edition of the novel that, at its heart, ""The Red Badge of Courage"" was a ""story of the birth, in a boy, of a knowledge of himself and of self-command."" However, the text is ambiguous, making it questionable that Henry ever matures. As critic Donald Gibson stated in ""The Red Badge of Courage: Redefining the Hero"", ""the novel undercuts itself. It says there is no answer"
"else is it that the temptation rises to deny that it is a book at all"". Frederic, who would later befriend Crane when the latter relocated to England in 1897, juxtaposed the novel's treatment of war to those by Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola and Victor Hugo, all of whose works he believed to be ""positively... cold and ineffectual"" when compared to ""The Red Badge of Courage"". Crane himself later wrote about the novel: ""I don't think ""The Red Badge"" to be any great shakes but then the very theme of it gives it an intensity that the writer can't reach"
"He took both private and classroom acting lessons from Estelle Harman, and honed his diction by reciting dialogue from William Shakespeare and William Saroyan. Murphy was lent to MGM at a salary of $25,000 to appear in the 1951 ""The Red Badge of Courage"" directed by John Huston and adapted from the Stephen Crane novel. At the urging of Spec McClure and celebrity columnist Hedda Hopper, over the misgivings of producer Gottfried Reinhardt and studio executives Louis B. Mayer and Dore Schary, director Huston cast Murphy in the lead of The Youth (Henry Fleming in the novel). The preview screening"
"was fascinated by war and death, as well as fire, disfigurement, fear and courage, all of which inspired him to write many works based on these concepts. In ""The Red Badge of Courage"", the main character both longs for the heroics of battle but ultimately fears it, demonstrating the dichotomy of courage and cowardice. He experiences the threat of death, misery and a loss of self. Extreme isolation from society and community is also apparent in Crane's work. During the most intense battle scenes in ""The Red Badge of Courage"", for example, the story's focus is mainly ""on the inner"
"""orgy of praise"" in England and the United States. An anonymous reviewer for ""The New York Press"" wrote shortly after the novel's initial publication that ""One should be forever slow in charging an author with genius, but it must be confessed that ""The Red Badge of Courage"" is open to the suspicion of having greater power and originality than can be girdled by the name of talent."" The reviewer for ""The New York Times"" was impressed by Crane's realistic portrayal of war, writing that the book ""strikes the reader as a statement of facts by a veteran"", a sentiment that"
"he changed something, he would rewrite the whole page. He later moved to New York City, where he completed the novel in April 1894. The title of Crane's original, 55,000-word manuscript was ""Private Fleming/His various battles"", but in order to create the sense of a less traditional Civil War narrative, he ultimately changed the title to ""The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War"". In early 1894, Crane submitted the manuscript to S. S. McClure, who held on to it for six months without publication. Frustrated, the author asked for the manuscript to be returned, after"
"football field, or else fighting is a hereditary instinct, and I wrote intuitively; for the Cranes were a family of fighters in the old days"". Crane drew from a variety of sources in order to realistically depict battle. ""Century"" ""Battles and Leaders"" series served as direct inspiration for the novel, and one story in particular (Warren Lee Goss's ""Recollections of a Private"") contains many parallels to Crane's work. Thomas Beer wrote in his problematic 1923 biography that Crane was challenged by a friend to write ""The Red Badge of Courage"" after having announced that he could do better than Émile"
"afford to pay him, Crane took his war novel to Irving Bacheller of the Bacheller-Johnson Newspaper Syndicate, which agreed to publish ""The Red Badge of Courage"" in serial form. Between the third and the ninth of December 1894, ""The Red Badge of Courage"" was published in some half-dozen newspapers in the United States. Although it was greatly cut for syndication, Bacheller attested to its causing a stir, saying ""its quality [was] immediately felt and recognized."" The lead editorial in the ""Philadelphia Press"" of December 7 said that Crane ""is a new name now and unknown, but everybody will be talking"
"released new paperback editions of four 19th-century works: ""The Red Badge of Courage"", by Stephen Crane; ""Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass""; ""The Common Law,"" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; and ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The new editions had a uniform paperback design. John Harvard Library (series) The John Harvard Library is a series of books published since 1959 by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. The series consists of reprints of historically significant American writings, including historic documents, fiction, poetry, memoirs, and criticism. Founded in 1959, the series bears the name of the first"
"Tobruk (2008 film) Tobruk is a 2008 film written and directed by Václav Marhoul and starring Jan Meduna and Petr Vanek. It is an adaptation of the classic American Civil War novel ""The Red Badge of Courage"" by Stephen Crane, but transfers the action to North Africa during World War II. Jiří and Jan are two Czech soldiers, fighting alongside the Allied forces against the Italians during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiří Pospichal, 18 years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell"
"to the Modern Library's 1951 edition of ""The Red Badge of Courage"" contained one of the first modern assessments of the novel. This novel is followed by other works by Crane, such as the short story, . The novel has been adapted several times for the screen. A 1951 film by the same name was directed by John Huston, starring Medal of Honor-recipient Audie Murphy as Henry Fleming. Written by Huston and Albert Band, the film suffered from a troubled production history, went over budget, and was cut down to only seventy minutes despite objections from the director. A made-for-television"
"The Red Romance Book The Red Romance Book: Tales of Knights, Dragons & High Adventure (or ""The Red Book of Romance"") is a book of heroic tales and legends. It was edited by Andrew Lang with illustrations by Henry J. Ford, and published in London by Longmans, Green, and Co. in 1905. The tales were generally taken from sagas and chivalric romances such as ""The Story of Burnt Njal"", ""The Faerie Queene"", ""Don Quixote"" and ""Orlando Furioso"". They are about such legendary characters as Bevis of Hampton, Huon of Bordeaux, Ogier the Dane and Guy of Warwick. Some are literary"
"(from the rifle butt of a fleeing Union soldier), however, is not a badge of courage but a badge of shame. By substituting epithets for characters' names (""the youth"", ""the tattered soldier""), Crane injects an allegorical quality into his work, making his characters point to a specific characteristic of man. There have been numerous interpretations concerning hidden meanings within ""The Red Badge of Courage"". Beginning with Robert W. Stallman's 1968 Crane biography, several critics have explored the novel in terms of Christian allegory. In particular, the death of Henry Fleming's Christ-like friend, Jim Conklin, is noted for evidence of this"
"and eventually the idea of writing a war novel overtook him. He would later state that he ""had been unconsciously working the detail of the story out through most of his boyhood"" and had imagined ""war stories ever since he was out of knickerbockers."" This novel would ultimately become ""The Red Badge of Courage"". From the beginning, Crane wished to show how it felt to be in a war by writing ""a psychological portrayal of fear."" Conceiving his story from the point of view of a young private who is at first filled with boyish dreams of the glory of"
"The Red Book (Jung) The Red Book is a red leather‐bound folio manuscript crafted by the Swiss physician and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung between 1915 and about 1930. It recounts and comments upon the author's imaginative experiences between 1913 and 1916, and is based on manuscripts first drafted by Jung in 1914–15 and 1917. Despite being nominated as the central work in Jung’s oeuvre, it was not published or made otherwise accessible for study until 2009. In October 2009, with the cooperation of Jung's estate and after 13 years of exhaustive editorial work by Sonu Shamdasani, ""The Red Book: Liber"
"is known for its distinctive style, which includes realistic battle sequences as well as the repeated use of color imagery, and ironic tone. Separating itself from a traditional war narrative, Crane's story reflects the inner experience of its protagonist (a soldier fleeing from combat) rather than the external world around him. Also notable for its use of what Crane called a ""psychological portrayal of fear"", the novel's allegorical and symbolic qualities are often debated by critics. Several of the themes that the story explores are maturation, heroism, cowardice, and the indifference of nature. ""The Red Badge of Courage"" garnered widespread"