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"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1898, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.
SS Commodore was an American steamboat that was wrecked off the coast of Florida on 2 January 1897, while en route to Cuba.The event was immortalized when passenger and author Stephen Crane, who was traveling as a war correspondent for the Bacheller-Johnson syndicate, wrote the classic short story "The Open Boat" about his experience.
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism.
The Bride – Stephen Crane does not give her a name, only The Bride or Mrs. Potter. Stephen Crane makes her, as an individual, meaningless. She "matters only as a representative of the new Eastern order". [28] In the final scene of the story, she stops Scratchy Wilson from continuing his rampage, not as herself, but as an idea.
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Stephen Crane: A Critical Bibliography. Iowa State University. ISBN 0-8138-0357-8. Wertheim, Stanley (1997). A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-3132-9692-8. Williams, Ames William (1970). Stephen Crane: A Bibliography. New York: Ayer Publishing. ISBN 0-8337-3807-0.
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