THE OPEN BOAT AND OTHER STORIES
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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 LAKE 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.
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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 Heinemann
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