This is part of our Review of The Open Boat & Other Stories. Summary One of two stories based on the ill-fated steamship SS Commodore, that sank off the coast of Florida with Crane on board on January 2, 1897. The story begins with Flanagan interviewing for a job captaining a filibustering mission (running guns […]

This is part of our Review of The Open Boat & Other Stories. Short Summary A boy works the merry go round; a girl sells tickets nearby. An eyes-only but tumultuous love affair fills the summer. The girl’s father owns the carnival and tries to break it up by threatening them both. They look away […]

This is part of our Review of The Open Boat & Other Stories. Quick Summary “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”: A bumpkin sheriff brings his new bride back from the big city of San Antonio. They take the train and are awed by the finery and are only subconsciously aware of being mocked by […]

Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat & Other Stories” is a story collection published in 1898, when the author was 27, two years before his death of tuberculosis in a German sanatorium. After the titular work, the most famous story in the work is “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”. “The Open Boat” story is included […]