Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editor's preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
- The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)
- The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
- George's Mother (1896)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1896)
- The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War (1896)
- The Third Violet (1897)
- The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure (1898)
- Pictures of War (1898)
- War is Kind (1899)
- Active Service: A Novel (1899)
- The Monster and Other Stories (1899)
- Bowery Tales (1900)
- Whilomville Stories (1900)
- Wounds in the Rain: War Stories (1900)
- The Monster and Other Stories (1901)
- Great Battles of the World (1901)
- Last Words (1902)
- The O'Ruddy (1903)
- Index
- References
The Monster and Other Stories (1901)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editor's preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
- The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)
- The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
- George's Mother (1896)
- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1896)
- The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War (1896)
- The Third Violet (1897)
- The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure (1898)
- Pictures of War (1898)
- War is Kind (1899)
- Active Service: A Novel (1899)
- The Monster and Other Stories (1899)
- Bowery Tales (1900)
- Whilomville Stories (1900)
- Wounds in the Rain: War Stories (1900)
- The Monster and Other Stories (1901)
- Great Battles of the World (1901)
- Last Words (1902)
- The O'Ruddy (1903)
- Index
- References
Summary
“Novels of the Week.” Spectator 86 (February 16, 1901), p. 244
It is a case of “‘Eclipse’ first, and the rest nowhere” this week, so incontestably superior is Mr. Stephen Crane's work to that of the seven other writers to be noticed below. Two at least of the stories have already seen the light in magazine form, “His New Mittens”—a touching story of a little boy who, yielding to the force of public opinion, disobeyed his mother's instructions, was punished on his return, ran away from home in a fit of resentment, and was brought back by a kindly tradesman—and the very striking and rather ghastly story which gives its name to the collection. This narrates how a good-natured, childishly vain coloured groom saved the life of his master's little boy from a fire caused by his own carelessness, but sustained such terrible injuries as to affect his reason, and disfigure his appearance to the extent of monstrosity. The boy's father, a skilful doctor, saves the poor fellow's life, and pensions him off, but the horror which “the Monster” inspires is so great that his guardians refuse to keep him, he breaks out and creates a panic in the town, and finally, when the doctor has taken the monster back to his own house, he is repaid for his humanity by being boycotted by his neighbours.
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- Stephen CraneThe Contemporary Reviews, pp. 245 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009