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Article: BADGE OF COURAGE: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN CRANE.(Review)
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- American Scholar
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- September 22, 1998
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BADGE OF COURAGE: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN CRANE By Linda H. Davis. Houghton Mifflin. $35.
Most readers, I suspect, know only two things for certain about Stephen Crane. The first is that he wrote one of the great war novels in American literature, The Red Badge of Courage, before he ever saw a real battle. The second is that he died tragically young. Some may recall "The Open Boat," his harrowing true story of shipwreck and survival off the Florida coast, or Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, his equally harrowing novella about a slum girl's descent into prostitution. Readers familiar with the history of literary klatches may know that at the end of his life, Crane was ...