Book Description
Though he died of tuberculosis at the age of 28, Stephen Crane wrote a canonical novel, three remarkable stories, and a handful of permanent poems. He has been considered as a possible forerunner of Ernest Hemmingway. This text offers analysis from renowned critics on his novels Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. Titles include detailed plot summaries of the novel, extracts from scholarly critical essays on the novels, a complete bibliography of the writer's novels, and more.