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Nel 1898 gli Stati Uniti dichiarano guerra alla Spagna per il controllo dei Caraibi e del Pacifico, e Stephen Crane è già un classico della letteratura. Ha ventisette anni e la tubercolosi che lo ucciderà in meno di due. Approda a Cuba come corrispondente, per raccontare l’azione da vicino: nella foresta che fischia di mille proiettili, sul mare che si alza al colpo della cannoniera. I cablogrammi che invia dal fronte diventano la materia prima per la stesura di undici racconti da cui Ernest Hemingway prenderà a piene mani. In cui il realismo esasperato della battaglia cede volentieri il passo al grottesco, quando si dà conto delle disfunzioni dell’esercito, della mediocrità dei colleghi cronisti, del nazionalismo a tutti i costi. Fino alle pagine superlative che descrivono i marines feriti; e mostrano quel che attraversa un essere umano che considera la morte.
EBOOK   9783736804678

The Red Badge of Courage (Illustrated). E-book. Formato EPUB Stephen Crane   -  Bookrix, 2014  - 

Stephen Crane's classic 1895 Civil War novel continues to be read, studied, and discussed, generation after generation. Its searing images of war, destruction, and fear endure in the collective American mind. This Fourth Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of The Red Badge of Courage is again based on the 1895 first edition, published by D. Appleton & Co., conservatively amended and accompanied by explanatory annotations. Crane's uncanceled but unpublished manuscript passages, including his discarded Chapter XII, are reprinted in the Textual Appendix."Backgrounds and Sources" contains biographical, historical, and contextual material on both Crane and The Red Badge of Courage, with much new material in the Fourth Edition bearing on the novel's Civil War context. Frederick C. Crews, Donald Pizer, Stephen Crane, Jay Martin, John Higham, Charles J. LaRocca, Harold R. Hungerford, Perry Lentz, Eric Solomon, and J. C. Levenson provide the framework for understanding the novel as both literature and history. A number of essays, sketches, and photographs give readers a glimpse of the battle of Chancellorsville, the real-life inspiration for the novel, and of the soldiers who fought it."Criticism" is a collection of fifteen essays (two new and one expanded in this edition) that represent the best of what has been written about The Red Badge of Courage, from the earliest assessments to current schools of critical interpretation. Contributors include Donald Pizer, Stephen Crane (in self-judgment), George Wyndham, Frank Norris, R. W. Stallman, John E. Hart, Charles C. Walcutt, John Fraser, James Nagel, Amy Kaplan, James M. Cox, James E. Curran, Jr., and James B. Colvert. A Chronologyand updated Selected Bibliography are also included.In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

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EBOOK   9783730987544

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. E-book. Formato EPUB Stephen Crane   -  Bookrix, 2014  - 

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths."Run, Jimmie, run! Dey'll get yehs," screamed a retreating Rum Alley child."Naw," responded Jimmie with a valiant roar, "dese micks can't make me run."Howls of renewed wrath went up from Devil's Row throats. Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel heap. On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of true assassins. As they charged, they threw stones and cursed in shrill chorus.

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