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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

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Stephen Crane

The American poet, novelist and short story writer, Stephen Crane is known as one of the pioneers of modern American Naturalism in literature. His writing is characterised by a vivid intensity, distinctive dialects and irony. His main themes are fear, spiritual crisis and social isolation.His Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, a classic of American literature, won international acclaim.

Classics
19th Century  4 min

The Snake

Stephen Crane

Where the path wended across the ridge, the bushes of huckleberry and sweet fern swarmed at it in two curling waves until it was a mere winding line traced through a tangle. There was no interference ...  [+]
Classics
19th Century  9 min

A Dark Brown Dog

Stephen Crane

A child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel. Sunshine beat upon the ...  [+]
Classics
19th Century  4 min

A Tent in Agony

Stephen Crane

A SULLIVAN COUNTY TALE
Four men once came to a wet place in the roadless forest to fish. They pitched their tent fair upon the brow of a pine-clothed ridge of riven rocks whence a bowlder could be ...  [+]
Classics
Classics