El rojo emblema del valor - Softcover

Stephen Crane

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9788496246607: El rojo emblema del valor

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ISBN 10: 8496246604 ISBN 13: 9788496246607

Publisher: El Pais Aventuras, 2004

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196pp , About the author :: Stephen Crane ( Newark (New Jersey) , November 1, 1871 - Badenweiler (Germany ) , June 5, 1900 ) was an American writer and journalist , influential in the twentieth century literarura .. . Crane was the fourteenth and last child of a marriage belongs to the Methodist church. In 1890 he moved to New York to work on his own as a reporter in the slums , working with his poverty would provide material for his first novel. Maggie : A Girl of the Street (1893 ) was his first novel , published under a pseudonym and had to pay himself; merited praise from several writers , but had no commercial success (today is a classic) . She followed The Red Badge of Courage (1896 ) , a highly lyrical and realistic story about the American Civil War , which is still internationally recognized as a psychological , accurate and deep study of a young soldier . For certain episode of civil war is described from its internal (the work , constant reissues , was taken excellent for film by John Huston) . Although he never lived military experiences , describing the ordeals of battle that revealed in his work (based on documentation and imagination ) , induced several US and foreign journalists to hire him as a war correspondent in Thirty Days ( war Greek-Turkish , 1897 ) and the Spanish-American War (1898 ) . In 1896 the ship that accompanied an expedition from the US to Cuba , wrecked and spent four days adrift , which eventually caused him tuberculosis. He recalled his experiences in the storybook The Open Boat and Other Tales ( 1898). In 1897 , he settled in England, where he befriended writers Henry James and Joseph Conrad, who praised his great novel . Shortly before his death, probably appeared his most popular book , Whilomville Stories ( 1900). Crane 's naturalism is not as desperate as that of Emile Zola and is also permeated with a strong lyricism ... He wrote a total of twelve books until he died of tuberculosis at age 28 in Badenweiler (Germany ) . A sa

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