Stephen Crane

For you know very well, my dear Edward, that if you had Antinous himself in a booth of the World's Fair and killed yourself in protesting that his soul was as perfect as his body, you wouldn't get one percent of the crowd struggling next door for a sight of the double-headed nightingale or of some weak-kneed giant grinning through a horse collar.

End of Turgenev, 1917 Stephen Crane, A Note Without Dates, 1919 In Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by Peter Dan Notes on Life and Letters Stephen Crane, A Note Without Dates, 1919 My acquaintance with Stephen Crane was brought about by Mr. Pauling, partner in the publishing firm of Mr. William Heinemann.

One day Mr. Pauling said to me, Stephen Crane has arrived in England.

I asked him if there was anybody he wanted to meet, and he mentioned two names.

One of them was yours.

That individual, he remains nameless throughout, was interesting enough in himself, but on turning over the pages of that little book which had for the moment secured such a noisy recognition, I had been even more interested in the personality of the writer.

The picture of a simple and untried youth becoming through the needs of his country part of a great fighting machine was presented with an earnestness of purpose, a sense of tragic issues, and an imaginative force of expression which struck me as quite uncommon and altogether worthy of admiration.

Apparently Stephen Crane had received a favorable impression from the reading of The Nigger of the Narcissus, a book of mine which had also been published lately.

In men, consumption was believed to bring creative powers to new levels.

Scholars pointed to the fact that everyone from Stephen Crane to Frédéric Chopin to the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty died of consumption.

Less attention was paid to the fact that in a world where roughly 30% of all Northern Europeans were dying of a disease, it should...

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The Black Dog: A Night of Spectral Terror, by Stephen Crane.

There was a ceaseless rumble in the air as the heavy raindrops battered upon the laurel thickets and the matted moss and haggard rocks beneath.

Four water-soaked men made their difficult ways through the drenched forest.

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Today, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, a Western-themed short story by American author Stephen Crane.

It was originally published in the February 1898 issue of McClure's Magazine.

The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern bride.

He picked up his starboard revolver, and placing both weapons in their holsters, he went away.

His feet made funnel-shaped tracks in the heavy sand.

Thanks for joining us for this great story from Stephen Crane.

I thought Crane did a really good job, especially in part one, on the train, where the sheriff and his wife, who kind of represented the old working man's plain, simple West, and the people on the train, including the servers, all kind of looking down on that old, simple way of life, as if it were passe and plain.

This is your host, John Hagedorn.

Today, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, a Western-themed short story by American author Stephen Crane.

It was originally published in the February 1898 issue of McClure's Magazine.

The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter, who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern bride.

He picked up his starboard revolver, and placing both weapons in their holsters, he went away.

His feet made funnel-shaped tracks in the heavy sand.

Thanks for joining us for this great story from Stephen Crane.

I thought Crane did a really good job, especially in part one, on the train, where the sheriff and his wife, who kind of represented the old working man's plain, simple West, and the people on the train, including the servers, all kind of looking down on that old, simple way of life, as if it were passe and plain.

But maybe it will.

Stephen Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage, is published to wide acclaim.

So that was

about the Civil War or the Revolutionary War? That's Civil War,

It was put together for artists and was owned by this family.

And so throughout history, I mean, great writers, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, all lived there.

And, I mean, Edward Albee, you name it.

And so throughout different decades, it... was different things for different people now in the 1960s it became associated with rock and roll and the stone stayed there and patty smith and robert maplethorpe right they lived there and so it had this reputation and so here i am the summer of 1978 in san francisco and i'm hanging out with these punk rockers and i was not a punk rocker i mean i You know, I like to party with them, but I, you know, I was this kind of preppy guy with wire rim glasses and, you know, tweed jacket.

He also names Catch-22.

And we know that Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage was also heavily influenced by Tolstoy.

Tolstoy was an artilleryman who fought in the Crimean War.

So to the point about the timelessness of certain observations, this book, which is credited with so much prescience for its technological anticipations and for its imagination, about the future is derived from works that either are Tolstoyan or were influenced by Tolstoy.

For example, Edward Eggleston, whose stories of early Indiana have the breath of actuality in them, Mr. E. W. Howe, author of The Story of a Country Town, Harold Frederick, a man of great ability, whose work was growing deeper, more significant when he died, George W.

Cable, whose novels are unsteady and sentimental, but who gives a genuine impression of having portrayed a city and its people, and Stephen Crane, who, dead at thirty, had given in The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie the promise of better work.

Of good short stories, America has been prolific.

Mrs. Wilkins Freeman, Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slawson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Roland Robinson, H. C. Bunner, Edward Everett Hale, Frank Stockton, Joel Chandler Harris, and O. Henry are some of those whose short stories are perfect in their several kinds, but the American novel, which multiplies past counting, remains an inferior production.