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This meticulously edited short story collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:
Table of Contents:
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
George's Mother
The Third Violet
The Monster
The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War:
The Little Regiment
Three Miraculous Soldiers
A Mystery of Heroism
An Indiana Campaign
A Grey Sleeve
The Veteran
The Open Boat and Other Stories:
The Open Boat
A Man and Some Others
The Bride comes to Yellow Sky
The Wise Men
The Five White Mice
Flanagan and His Short
Filibustering Adventure
Horses
Death and the Child
An Experiment in Misery
The Men in the Storm
The Dual that was not Fought
An Ominous Baby
A Great Mistake
An Eloquence of Grief
The Auction
The Pace of Youth
A Detail
Blue Hotel
His New Mittens
Whilomville Stories:
The Angel Child
Lynx-Hunting
The Lover and the Telltale
"Showin' Off"
Making an Orator
Shame
The Carriage-Lamps
The Knife
The Stove
The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps
The Fight
The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers
A Little Pilgrimage
Wounds in the Rain – War Stories:
The Price of the Harness
The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins
The Clan of No-Name
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
The Revenge of the Adolphus
The Sergeant's Private Madhouse
Virtue in War
Marines Signalling under Fire at Guantanamo
This Majestic Lie
War Memories
The Second Generation
Great Battles of the World:
Vittoria
The Siege of Plevna
The Storming of Burkersdorf Heights
A Swede's Campaign in Germany
The Storming of Badajoz
The Brief Campaign Against New Orleans
The Battle of Solferino
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Last Words:
The Reluctant Voyagers
Spitzbergen Tales
Wyoming Valley Tales
London Impressions
New York Sketches
The Assassins in Modern Battles
Irish Notes
Sullivan County Sketches
Miscellaneous
Other Short Stories:
The Black Dog
A Tent in Agony
An Experiment in Luxury
The Judgement of the Sage
The Scotch Express
Marines Signaling Under Fire at Guantanamo
Twelve O'Clock
The Great Boer Trek
A Dark-Brown Dog
Manacled
The Woof of Thin Red Threads

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Stephen Crane

The Complete Short Stories of Stephen Crane

100+ Tales & Novellas: Maggie, The Open Boat, Blue Hotel, The Monster, The Little Regiment…

e-artnow, 2021

Contact: info@e-artnow.org

EAN 4064066388386

Table of Contents

The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War Table of Contents THE LITTLE REGIMENT THREE MIRACULOUS SOLDIERS A MYSTERY OF HEROISM AN INDIANA CAMPAIGN A GREY SLEEVE THE VETERAN

The Open Boat and Other Stories The Open Boat and Other Stories Table of Contents Part I Minor Conflicts The Open Boat A Man and Some Others The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Wise Men The Five White Mice Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure Horses Death and the Child Part II Midnight Sketches An Experiment in Misery The Men in the Storm The Duel That Was Not Fought An Ominous Baby A Great Mistake An Eloquence of Grief The Auction The Pace of Youth A Detail

Blue Hotel & His New Mittens

Whilomville Stories

Wounds in the Rain: War Stories

Great Battles of the World

Last Words

Other Short Stories:

The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War

Table of Contents Table of Contents The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War Table of Contents THE LITTLE REGIMENT THREE MIRACULOUS SOLDIERS A MYSTERY OF HEROISM AN INDIANA CAMPAIGN A GREY SLEEVE THE VETERAN The Open Boat and Other Stories The Open Boat and Other Stories Table of Contents Part I Minor Conflicts The Open Boat A Man and Some Others The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Wise Men The Five White Mice Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure Horses Death and the Child Part II Midnight Sketches An Experiment in Misery The Men in the Storm The Duel That Was Not Fought An Ominous Baby A Great Mistake An Eloquence of Grief The Auction The Pace of Youth A Detail Blue Hotel & His New Mittens Whilomville Stories Wounds in the Rain: War Stories Great Battles of the World Last Words Other Short Stories:

THE LITTLE REGIMENT THE LITTLE REGIMENT Table of Contents

THREE MIRACULOUS SOLDIERS THREE MIRACULOUS SOLDIERS Table of Contents

A MYSTERY OF HEROISM

AN INDIANA CAMPAIGN

A GREY SLEEVE

THE VETERAN

THE LITTLE REGIMENT

Table of Contents

I

The fog made the clothes of the men of the column in the roadway seem of a luminous quality. It imparted to the heavy infantry overcoats a new colour, a kind of blue which was so pale that a regiment might have been merely a long, low shadow in the mist. However, a muttering, one part grumble, three parts joke, hovered in the air above the thick ranks, and blended in an undertoned roar, which was the voice of the column.

The town on the southern shore of the little river loomed spectrally, a faint etching upon the grey cloud-masses which were shifting with oily languor. A long row of guns upon the northern bank had been pitiless in their hatred, but a little battered belfry could be dimly seen still pointing with invincible resolution toward the heavens.

The enclouded air vibrated with noises made by hidden colossal things. The infantry tramplings, the heavy rumbling of the artillery, made the earth speak of gigantic preparation. Guns on distant heights thundered from time to time with sudden, nervous roar, as if unable to endure in silence a knowledge of hostile troops massing, other guns going to position. These sounds, near and remote, defined an immense battle-ground, described the tremendous width of the stage of the prospective drama. The voices of the guns, slightly casual, unexcited in their challenges and warnings, could not destroy the unutterable eloquence of the word in the air, a meaning of impending struggle which made the breath halt at the lips.

The column in the roadway was ankle-deep in mud. The men swore piously at the rain which drizzled upon them, compelling them to stand always very erect in fear of the drops that would sweep in under their coat-collars. The fog was as cold as wet cloths. The men stuffed their hands deep in their pockets, and huddled their muskets in their arms. The machinery of orders had rooted these soldiers deeply into the mud, precisely as almighty nature roots mullein stalks.

They listened and speculated when a tumult of fighting came from the dim town across the river. When the noise lulled for a time they resumed their descriptions of the mud and graphically exaggerated the number of hours they had been kept waiting. The general commanding their division rode along the ranks, and they cheered admiringly, affectionately, crying out to him gleeful prophecies of the coming battle. Each man scanned him with a peculiarly keen personal interest, and afterward spoke of him with unquestioning devotion and confidence, narrating anecdotes which were mainly untrue.

When the jokers lifted the shrill voices which invariably belonged to them, flinging witticisms at their comrades, a loud laugh would sweep from rank to rank, and soldiers who had not heard would lean forward and demand repetition. When were borne past them some wounded men with grey and blood-smeared faces, and eyes that rolled in that helpless beseeching for assistance from the sky which comes with supreme pain, the soldiers in the mud watched intently, and from time to time asked of the bearers an account of the affair. Frequently they bragged of their corps, their division, their brigade, their regiment. Anon they referred to the mud and the cold drizzle. Upon this threshold of a wild scene of death they, in short, defied the proportion of events with that splendour of heedlessness which belongs only to veterans.

"Like a lot of wooden soldiers," swore Billie Dempster, moving his feet in the thick mass, and casting a vindictive glance indefinitely: "standing in the mud for a hundred years."

"Oh, shut up!" murmured his brother Dan. The manner of his words implied that this fraternal voice near him was an indescribable bore.

"Why should I shut up?" demanded Billie.

"Because you're a fool," cried Dan, taking no time to debate it; "the biggest fool in the regiment."

There was but one man between them, and he was habituated. These insults from brother to brother had swept across his chest, flown past his face, many times during two long campaigns. Upon this occasion he simply grinned first at one, then at the other.

The way of these brothers was not an unknown topic in regimental gossip. They had enlisted simultaneously, with each sneering loudly at the other for doing it. They left their little town, and went forward with the flag, exchanging protestations of undying suspicion. In the camp life they so openly despised each other that, when entertaining quarrels were lacking, their companions often contrived situations calculated to bring forth display of this fraternal dislike.

Both were large-limbed, strong young men, and often fought with friends in camp unless one was near to interfere with the other. This latter happened rather frequently, because Dan, preposterously willing for any manner of combat, had a very great horror of seeing Billie in a fight; and Billie, almost odiously ready himself, simply refused to see Dan stripped to his shirt and with his fists aloft. This sat queerly upon them, and made them the objects of plots.

When Dan jumped through a ring of eager soldiers and dragged forth his raving brother by the arm, a thing often predicted would almost come to pass. When Billie performed the same office for Dan, the prediction would again miss fulfilment by an inch. But indeed they never fought together, although they were perpetually upon the verge.

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