Volume 19, Number 2 · August 10, 1972
Stephen Crane to the Rescue
By Jane Mayhall
The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume I, Bowery Tales
edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by James B. Colvert
The University Press of Virginia, 184 pp., $10.00
The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume IV, The O'Ruddy
edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by J.C. Levenson
The University Press of Virginia, 362 pp., $15.00
The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume V, Tales of Adventure
edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by J.C. Levenson
The University Press of Virginia, 244 pp., $15.00
The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume VI, Tales of War
edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by James B. Colvert
The University Press of Virginia, 400 pp., $22.50
The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume VII, Tales of Whilomville
edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by J.C. Levenson
The University Press of Virginia, 277 pp., $10.00
The Works of Stephen Crane, Volume IX, Reports of War
edited by Fredson Bowers, Introduction by James B. Colvert
The University Press of Virginia, 678 pp., $24.00
A brief sketch by Stephen Crane, 'An Eloquence of Grief,' written about 1896 when he was still a New York reporter haunting police courts, is a rather cryptic, imaginative account of a routine case and conviction, and it contains a theme which dominated his vast literary output and meteoric short life. The report concerns a girl accused of stealing 'fifty dollars worth of silk clothing' from her well-heeled young woman employer. The girl, who is a servant, is tried and found guilty. On hearing the verdict, she makes a sudden outcry.
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