Front matter
Reading edition
The Open Boat
and Other Stories
New Novels for 1898
Crown 8vo, price 6s. each
DREAMERS OF THE GHETTO By I. ZANGWILL
THE SCOURGE-STICK By MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED
THE LONDONERS By ROBERT HICHENS
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS By H. G. WELLS
THE FOURTH NAPOLEON By CHARLES BENHAM
THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH By GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO
THE MINISTER OF STATE By J. A. STEUART
CLEO THE MAGNIFICENT By Z. Z.
THE BROOM OF THE WAR-GOD By H. N. BRAILSFORD
THE LINE OF WINE By BERNARD CAPES
GOD'S FOUNDLING By A. J. DAWSON
EZEKIEL'S SIN By J. A. PEARCE
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
21 Bedford Street, W.C.
The Open Boat and Other Stories
By
Stephen Crane
Author of "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Little Regiment," "The Third Violet," etc.
London
William Heineman
1898
All rights reserved
To the Memory of
THE LATE WILLIAM HIGGINS
and to
CAPTAIN EDWARD MURPHY
and
STEWARD C. B. MONTGOMERY
Of the sunk Steamer 'Commodore.'
Contents
Part I Minor Conflicts
Page
The Open Boat 1
A Man and Some Others 41
The Bride comes to Yellow Sky 65
The Wise Men 85
The Five White Mice 107
Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure 129
Horses 155
Death and the Child 175
Part II Midnight Sketches
An Experiment in Misery 211
The Men in the Storm 227
The Dual that was not Fought 239
An Ominous Baby 251
A Great Mistake 259
An Eloquence of Grief 265
The Auction 271
The Pace of Youth 279
A Detail 297
Part I
Minor Conflicts