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Stephen Crane
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Stephen Crane : Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie" ... I took it up ... and to my horror I discovered it was the story of a New York courtesan ...'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Miss Garvice Print: Book
Stephen Crane : Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie" ... I took it up ... and to my horror I discovered it was the story of a New York courtesan ...'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Garvice Print: Book
Stephen Crane : The Red badge of courage
'That same night, in a perfect, clear, still moonlight, I lay in a tent, obsessed by insomnia... And I will interpolate that, for myself, I had been reading, actually, "The Red Badge of Courage" by the light of a candle stuck onto a bully-beef case at my camp-bed head.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Stephen Crane : The Red Badge of Courage
'Read the "Badge" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the outside of many things and the inside of some.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Stephen Crane : A Man and Some Others
'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. It is an amazing bit of biography. [...] The boat thing ["The Open Boat"] is immensely interesting.I don't use the word in its common sense.' [Hence follows several more lines of general praise].
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
Stephen Crane : The Open Boat
'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. It is an amazing bit of biography. [...] The boat thing ["The Open Boat"] is immensely interesting.I don't use the word in its common sense.' [Hence follows several more lines of general praise].
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
Stephen Crane : The Price of the Harness
'Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. ["Blackwood's Magazine"] is magnificent. It is the very best thing he has done since "The Red Badge [of Courage]"--and it has even somethimng the "Red Badge" has not--or not so much of. He is maturing. He is expanding.' [Then follows six more lines of praise.]
