The Open Boat and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
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"The Open Boat and Other Stories" by Stephen Crane is a collection published in 1898. The title story recounts four men struggling to survive in a small dinghy after their ship sinks off the Florida coast. Based on Crane's own harrowing shipwreck experience, the narrative follows a correspondent, captain, cook, and oiler as they battle waves, exhaustion, and nature's indifference to their fate. This masterwork of literary Naturalism explores themes of survival,
human solidarity, and the conflict between man and an uncaring universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Open Boat and Other Stories |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Boat |
| Contents | Minor conflicts: The open boat. A man and some others. The bride comes to Yellow Sky. The wise men. The five white mice. Flanagan and his short filibustering adventure. Horses. Death and the child -- Midnight sketches: An experiment in misery. The men in the storm. The duel that was not fought. An ominous baby. A great mistake. An eloquence of grief. The auction. The pace of youth. A detail. |
| Credits | Dianna Adair, Steven Calwas, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories, American |
| Subject | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 45524 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-45524-2 |
| Release Date | Apr 28, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 3695 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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