The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The other stories collected in this volume draw on Crane's subsequent experience of war reporting and include `The Open Boat, `The Monster' and `The Blue Hotel'. This edition is the most generously annotated available of Crane's work, focusing on his place as an
experimental writer, his modernist legacy and his social as well as literary revisionism.
Meet Isadora Moon's mermaid friend, Emerald!
Emerald is learning how to be a mermaid princess, but she doesn't feel like one at all. Will she be able to appear with the King and Queen at the annual Ocean Parade, and still stay true to herself?
Half vampire, half fairy, totally unique!
Isadora has been invited to a sleepover under the sea with her mermaid friends, it's so exciting! But when she arrives she meets a mermaid called Emerald, who doesn't seem quite so pleased to be there.Can Isadora find out what is the matter? It's the beginning of a magical underwater adventure!
This selection of four relatively neglected stories by Conrad - 'The End of the Tether', ' The Duel', ' The Return', and 'Amy Foster' -remind readers that he is not just the teller of sea stories and tales of imperialist action, but a writer for an age of global terror and individual trauma.
