Davis, Linda H.
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World famous at twenty-four, brilliant, reckless, and ultimately tragic, Stephen Crane is a dramatic study in contradictions. His
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most famous work, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, is a classic antiwar novel, yet Crane himself longed for military honors. The son of a Methodist minister, he used his literary stature to help defend a prostitute, ruining his reputation and costing him the friendship of Theodore Roosevelt. An easterner who fancied himself a cowboy, he spent his last years on a ramshackle estate in England entertaining the leading writers of the time. Until now, his life has been shrouded in misconception and myth. In this in-depth biography, Davis vividly describes Crane's short but fascinating life and assesses the full extent of his literary contribution.
"Ms. Davis's life of Crane, initially inspired by curiosity and fueled by increasing admiration for the man and his work, is what a life should be - well-written, fair minded, and spirited." (Atlantic Monthly)
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If you don't believe Stephen Crane was reading James Fenimore Cooper at age 4, you will when you read the poetry he wrote at age 7. Linda Davis's succinct biography emphasizes the revolutionary nature of Crane's writing, produced at the same time the Victorian world was seeing a rebirth in art called Impressionism. Mary Peiffer's cheery, pleasant voice adds sweetness to this story of an author's struggle to recreate the early success he achieved with his Civil War book, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, while trying to outlive the infamy of his novel MAGGIE, A GIRL OF THE STREETS. The narrator skillfully punctuates the many quotations with little pauses. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine--
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