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FICTION STEPHEN CRANE LIVES AGAIN IN THIS SPIRITED TALE, SAYS JANE SHILLING

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20070902
Author:JANE SHILLING

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Stephen Crane, the American journalist and novelist best known for his realist novel of the American Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage, was one of many poignant artistic casualties of a pre- antibiotic age. Born in 1871, the 14th child of a Methodist minister and his wife, Crane led an adventurous life, observing conditions in the Bowery slums (the details of which made their way into his unsuccessful first novel, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets), working as a war reporter and ...

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