Buy this book on-line BENFEY, CHRISTOPHER: : The Double Life of Stephen Crane. - A BiographyLONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1993. ISBN 0233988203.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo,294pp, 26 b/w photographs.
This is the first reassessment in more than a quarter of a century of one of the most brilliant and fascinating figures in American literature - the novelist born in
1879, six years after the war he memorialised in his universally acclaimed The Red Badge of Courage and dead from tuberculosis aged 28.
Recounting Crane's brief life,Benfey identifies a curious pattern:Crane tried to live what he had already written.Barely
22 when he wrote Red Badge,he later became
the leading war correspondent of his time
- in order to see, he told Joseph Conrad, whether Red Badge was 'alright'.He wrote Maggie - A Girl of the Streets more out of curiousity than knowledge;a few years later he took as his common-law wife the madam of a Jacksonville whorehouse.He made
a life with her in England,where their circle of friends included CONRAD,Henry JAMES,Ford Maddox FORD and H.G.WELLS.
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