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Before his untimely death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane produced the most innovative writing of his generation. When he was just 21, he began The Red Badge of Courage. This is the powerful story of a young Union soldier under fire for the first time. Each book features an introductory essay by one of a leading writer, as well as a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice and history of the text, and notes.
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Stephen Crane transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster casts a dazzled eye on Crane's astonishing originality and productivity. He provides insight into Crane's creative processes, and shows how Crane's life experiences, in rebounding from one perilous situation to the next, shaped his works....