Stephen Crane

Betty Ren Wright

George Crane

First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier's struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernest Hemingway called the novel an American classic, and Crane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp, colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episode of war so intense, so immediate, so real that the terror of battle becomes our own ... in a masterpiece so unique that many believe modern American fiction began with Stephen Crane. "The Red Badge Of Courage" has long been considered the first great 'modern' novel of war by an American--the first novel of literary distinction to present war without heroics and this in a spirit of total irony and skepticism." -- Alfred Kazin

The Red Badge of Courage

Victoria 

in altri tempi aveva spesso pensato con terrore che, un giorno , avrebbe finito d'essere innamorato di Odette, si era ripromesso di vigilare e , non appena si fosse accorto che il suo amore cominciava ad abbandonarlo, di aggrapparsi per trattenerlo. ma ecco che all'affievolirsi dell'amore corrispondeva simultaneamente un affievolirsi del desiderio di rimanere innamorato. infatti non si può cambiare, cioè diventare un'altra persona, finché si continua ad obbedire ai sentimenti di quella che non esiste più. [...] ma, il più delle volte, quando si sforzava, se non di rimanere in quella fase così particolare della sua vita dalla quale stava uscendo, perlomeno di averne una visione chiara finché era ancora possibile, si accorgeva che, invece, non lo era già più; avrebbe voluto contemplare, come un paesaggio che sta per svanire, quell'amore che aveva appena abbandonato

Ghee

For, if unduly prolonged, the rapture of waiting for Eulalie became a torture, and my aunt would never stop looking at the time, and yawning, and complaining of each of her symptoms in turn. Eulalie's ring, if it sounded from the front door at the very end of the day, when she was no longer expecting it, would almost make her ill.

Nkechi A

People who learn somne correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see in the newly discovered fact an explanation of things that have no connexion with it whatsoever

Alawander Bouston 

For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by a motionless prison: rather, we are in some sense borne along with it in a perpetual leap to go beyond it, to reach the outside, with a sort of discouragement as we hear around us always that same resonance, which is not an echo from outside but the resounding of an internal vibration.

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