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A pioneer in the realistic school of American fiction and the true forerunner of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane probed the thoughts and actions of trapped or baited men fighting the destructive forces in nature, in other human beings, and in themselves... Here, published complete from the original manuscript, is Stephen Crane's masterpiece--one of the great war novels of all time--The Red Badge of Courage, together with four of his best known short stories. Outstanding for their pyschological portrayal of violent emotions keyed in quiet tension, they reveal the insight and narrative skill of, according to Carl Van Doren, 'one of the clearest cases of genius American fiction.'
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