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The Little Regiment

Stephen Crane

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .a herd of wounded horses, went over a field that was sown with corpses, the records of other charges.

Directly in front of the black-faced, whooping Dan, carousing in this onward sweep like a new kind of fiend, a wounded man appeared, raising his shattered body, and staring at this rush of men down upon him. It seemed to occur to him that he was to be trampled; he made a desperate, piteous effort to escape; then finally huddled in a waiting heap. Dan and the soldier near him widened the interval between them without looking down, without appearing to heed the wounded man. This little clump of blue seemed to reel past them as boulders reel past a train.

Bursting through a smoke-wave, the scampering, unformed bunches came upon the wreck of the brigade that had preceded them, a floundering mass stopped afar from the hill by the swirling volleys.

It was as if a necromancer had suddenly shown them a picture of the fate which awaited them; but the li. . . Read More

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From what I understand, Crane wrote most of these stories at the request of his editors and not of his own volition. This probably explains why the stories often lack the startling style and ethical urgency that one expects from Crane. This also probably explains why, in this collection, the shorter

The Little regiment is a little book in size, but not in stature. These stories about the American Civil War have a ring of authenticity, of experience. There are explosions, there are artillery barrages and there is shooting and death. But there are several poignant observations of people who are c

I’m reading this collection of Civil War stories by Stephen Crane along with Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War stories, In the Midst of Life. I’d like to see how these writers compare since they wrote their stories within about five years of each other. They are both called realists or naturalists with som

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I'm very impressed that Crane can write this well about the war years later. Easy to picture what you think.

[anobii, Apr, 2016]
“Ehilà, Dan” … “Ehilà, Billie” …

Fredericksburg, dicembre 1862. Civil War. Dan e Billie sono arruolati nello stesso reggimento unionista. I due fratelli combatteranno insieme ai loro commilitoni e saranno sconfitti dalle truppe confederate. Le perdite saranno così elevate che p

The last book of 2017. A collection of short stories by Stephen Crane. "The Veteran" features Henry Fleming the protagonist of "The Red Badge of Courage."

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