An Experiment in Misery: Stories

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Though best known forThe Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of storiesamong them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title storythat stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction.

This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brilliantly conveyed through the cold, sometimes brutal irony of Crane's narrative voice.

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Stephen Crane (18711900) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet and journalist. His fiction works were part of the Realist tradition, and he is recognised by modern modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.Crane won international acclaim for his 1895 Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, which he wrote without any battle experience.