Stephen Crane — a remark

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“I have only one pride—and may it be forgiven me. This single pride is that the English edition of The Red Badge has been received with praise by the English reviewers.”

Taking quiet satisfaction in distant, seemingly harder-won approval · Letter, written in England (published 1900)

About Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

1 November 1871–5 June 1900

Stephen Crane, born 1 November 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, and dead of tuberculosis on 5 June 1900 in Badenweiler, Germany, lived only twenty-eight years, yet his work altered the direction of American fiction, journalism, and poetry. He is commonly placed among the major writers of literary naturalism, beside such…

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