A powerful Civil War classic follows the main character's transformation from an eager recruit to a battle-shocked survivor and is accompanied by four additional tales, including 'The Upturned Face' and 'The Blue Hotel,' as well as an introduction by James Dickey. Reissue.

Product Description: This collection will hold a special attraction to those interested in American literature, for it reveals the beginnings of Stephen Crane's development into what William Dean Howells called "a writer sprung to life fully armed." There is clear evidence here of Crane's painterly and impressionistic style and his addiction to color adjectives, metaphor, and symbol...read more

Original documents, contemporary viewpoints and modern scholarly research are interwoven into a comprehensive and definitive narrative on the life and works of this enigmatic American novelist of the nineteenth century

Product Description: Iowa 1972 1st Iowa State. Lg.8vo., 642pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ in unopened publisher's sealed plastic wrap.