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One of the great war novels, The Red Badge of Courage describes the first experience of front-line combat through the eyes of a young recruit, Henry Fleming, in one of the battles of the American Civil War. Under the stress of battle, Fleming is forced to face strong, conflicting emotions, ranging from bravado to terror as the conflict ebbs and flows.

Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American.

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the 19th century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce - why is that window boarded up? - and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, but forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans.

This is a story from the More Classic American Short Stories collection.

This is a story from the Classic American Short Stories collection.

In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

Durch einen Schneesturm wird "Das blaue Hotel" in Nebraska von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten. Der Wirt, sein Sohn und drei weitere anwesende Gäste sind fortan auf sich allein gestellt und müssen sich, so weit es geht, arrangieren. Doch das ist leichter gesagt als getan. Denn in dem Hotel prallen unterschiedliche Religionen und Gesellschaftsschichten aufeinander, sodass es immer wieder zu Konflikten kommt. Vor allem der schwedische Gast aus New York macht den anderen mit seiner absurd-paranoiden Art das Leben schwer.

A young American civil war recruit overcomes initial fears and shame to become a hero on the battlefield.

Henry Fleming leaves his widowed mother behind and marches off to join a war that is tearing his country apart. His regiment has yet to be tested in the fire of battle. Together the soldiers wait while distant guns rumble and the lights of enemy campfires flicker on the hills beyond a darkened river. The young man recalls his childhood dreams of valiant combat. Will he pass the test and return home to tell others of his triumphs on the battlefield? Or will he flee at the first sign of real danger?

Represented here are 16 short stories by seven great American writers, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American.

No nation has ever achieved the literary diversity of America. From nativist humor to immigrant triumph, Americans have recorded their visions and hopes better than anyone

A gripping testament to human endurance and the indifference of nature, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane captures the harrowing true story of survival at sea after the wreck of the steamer Commodore. Based on Crane’s own near-death experience, this masterpiece of American naturalism follows four men—the captain, the cook, the correspondent, and the oiler—as they struggle against exhaustion, hunger, and the merciless power of the ocean in a tiny dinghy adrift off the Florida coast.

This classic novel is the fictional story about Henry Fleming who was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War in the late 1800s. Initially Henry runs from the fight but is later consumed with shame and wishes to be wounded. Though he does receive a minor wound not from the enemy, he manages to return to the fight against the Confederate Army of the south and does act as a flag bearer during another skirmish.

En La segunda generación de Stephen Crane, nos encontramos con Caspar Cadogan, un joven que decide seguir los pasos de su padre, un influyente senador, y buscar la gloria en la guerra. Stephen Crane dibuja magistralmente la lucha interna de Caspar: la presión de las expectativas paternales, el peso de la responsabilidad y la cruda realidad de la guerra.

¡Valentía, orgullo y el verdadero significado de la camaradería en tiempos de guerra! En Virtud en la guerra de Stephen Crane, nos encontramos con Gates, un hombre endurecido por el campo de batalla, que regresa a liderar el batallón Trescientos Siete, dispuesto a forjar a sus hombres bajo una disciplina estricta pero justa. La historia nos lleva al corazón del conflicto en Cuba, donde cada momento es una prueba de valor y cada decisión puede significar la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte.

La historia sigue a un grupo de hombres marchando hacia la batalla, en medio del calor, el cansancio y la incertidumbre. Los hombres se enfrentan a situaciones extremas, desde la lucha por conseguir un trago de café hasta el caótico estruendo de una batalla en pleno apogeo, donde la supervivencia se convierte en una cuestión de azar. Crane captura cada detalle de la fatiga, la esperanza y el horror que se experimenta en el campo de batalla.

Lo que comenzó como una tranquila travesía se convierte en una desesperada carrera por la supervivencia cuando dos cañoneros españoles aparecen en el horizonte, dispuestos a dar caza al pequeño barco americano. Shackles, los periodistas y la tripulación se enfrentan al miedo, la incertidumbre y la constante amenaza de ser alcanzados y destruidos.

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Crane is noted for his early employment of naturalism, a literary style in which characters face realistically portrayed and often bleak circumstances, but Crane added impressionistic imagery and biblical symbolism to the austere realism.

In this brief, haunting tale, Stephen Crane casts a quiet, unflinching gaze at innocence, cruelty, and the strange bargains we make in the name of love. Told in spare, evocative prose, A Dark Brown Dog is more than it appears — a fable with no moral, a friendship with no promise, a home with no safety.

Included: The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe, Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée by Mateo Falcone, Napoleon And The Spectre by Charlotte Bronte, The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frog by Edgar Allan Poe, The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare.