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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.
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The Open Boat and Other Stories (1898) contains seventeen short stories that deal with three periods in Crane's life: his Asbury Park boyhood, his trip to the West and Mexico in 1895, and his Cuban adventure in 1897. [223] This collection was well received and included several of his most critically successful works.
A member of the crew of the Mignonette using a sea anchor in an open boat during stormy conditions at sea. This is an original engraving by J Nash after sketches by Edwin Stephens, a crew member ...
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