Four men in a dinghy fight the surf off the Florida coast after a shipwreck in “The Open Boat”, the story that opens this gathering of Crane’s short fiction. Vincent Starrett’s selection adds the comic novella “The Reluctant Voyagers” and tales and sketches rescued from old magazines and out-of-print volumes, with an introductory estimate of Crane’s achievement.
Essential for anyone who knows Crane only from The Red Badge of Courage. Download the free EPUB.