Student Companion to Stephen Crane

by Paul M. Sorrentino

Book Overview

Born into a family of writers, Stephen Crane wrote his first poem, I'd Rather Have when he was eight, and his first short story, Uncle Jake and the Bell-Handle, at around the age of 13. Despite never having completed a course of study at any of the colleges he attended, Crane decided, in the spring of 1891, to pursue a career as a writer. While working as a journalist, he penned Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a novella written in the Naturalist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313331049
• ISBN13: 9780313331046
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"