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The Monster and Other Stories

Stephen Crane

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .She pointed at the second-story windows.

Hannigan was already shouting: "Don't go in that way! You can't go in that way!"

Trescott ran around the corner of the house and disappeared from them. He knew from the view he had taken of the main hall that it would be impossible to ascend from there. His hopes were fastened now to the stairway which led from the laboratory. The door which opened from this room out upon the lawn was fastened with a bolt and lock, but he kicked close to the lock and then close to the bolt. The door with a loud crash flew back. The doctor recoiled from the roll of smoke, and then bending low, he stepped into the garden of burning flowers. On the floor his stinging eyes could make out a form in a smouldering blanket near the window. Then, as he carried his son towards the door, he saw that the whole lawn seemed now alive with men and boys, the leaders in the great charge that the whole town was making. They seized him and his bur. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I really liked this book. I found it from a list of books Ernest Hemingway recommended to an aspiring writer, which included one of these three short stories. This collection includes The Monster, The Blue Hotel (Hemingway's recommendation), and The New Mittens. I enjoyed all three stories. I though

The Blue Hotel was quite good, but The Monster was too heavy-handed for me.

everybody know i'm a motherfuckin monster

In a discourse, I didn't like this book while reading, but I liked it after I completed and re-read the critics about it. So I would suggest reading the reviews to everyone. And I encourage readers to imagine a similar scenario, what if this story was lived around you? What would be different?

The no

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