Stephen Crane
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Young Henry Fleming had always dreamt of performing heroic deeds in battle. But as a raw recruit in the American Civil War, the reality if one of mental and physical torment. Throughout his first ordeal in action, Henry experiences both fear and self-doubt, and has no idea whether war will make him a coward - or a hero.
Author
Publisher
Perennial Library
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Stephen Crane died at the age of 28 in Germany. In his short life, he produced stories that are among the most enduring in the history of American fiction. The Red Badge of Courage manages to capture both the realistic grit and the grand hallucinations of soldiers at war. Maggie: A Girl on the Streets reflects the range of Crane's...
Author
Series
Children's illustrated classics volume 90
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run...As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 18
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale set in the spring of 1863 when, while engaged in the fierce battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Language
English
Description
Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce – why is that window boarded up? – and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans. Read with sensitivity
...Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories from American authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries, selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities. Mark Twain: "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County", "The one-million pound bank note", A visit to Niagrara", and "A mysterious visit" -- Stephen Crane: "The blue hotel" and ""The bride comes to yellow sky" -- Ambrose Bierce: "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "The eyes...