Excerpt from Stephen Crane: In Memoriam No greater - more damnably tragic - mistake could be made. The writer does his best work when well-fed, comfortably housed and free from pecuniary worry. The early work of most writers -the great Dryden, for example - is usually inferior, because of the dire necessity they are under of getting into print - and so into money - as quickly as possible. It is useless to surmise now as to what killed Step-hen Crane at so early an age - 30. He was delicate and fragile, physically, and it ...
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Excerpt from Stephen Crane: In Memoriam No greater - more damnably tragic - mistake could be made. The writer does his best work when well-fed, comfortably housed and free from pecuniary worry. The early work of most writers -the great Dryden, for example - is usually inferior, because of the dire necessity they are under of getting into print - and so into money - as quickly as possible. It is useless to surmise now as to what killed Step-hen Crane at so early an age - 30. He was delicate and fragile, physically, and it may have been the stress and storm of his early struggles for literary recognition - or it may have been his hardships and shipwreck in the Cuban campaign as war-correspondent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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