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Written by Stephen Crane - Audio book performed by John Bolen - Unabridged Fiction - 1 MP3 COMPACT DISC - 7 hours, 59 minutes

Publisher, Tantor Media (May 2001)

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How far would a father go to keep his daughter from marrying the wrong man? Rufus Coleman, the respected editor of the New York Eclipse, plans to marry Marjory Wainwright. Yet to her father, Professor Wainwright, Rufus is still the wastrel that he thought him to be as a student in college. To thwart the marriage the professor drags Marjory off with him and a group of students on a summer tour of Greece. Suddenly war erupts between Turkey and Greece! Will Rufus arrive in time to save the group? Will he redeem himself in the professor's eyes? Will the strife of war and trial of separation overcome the love between Rufus and Marjory?

About the Author: American author Stephen Crane won international fame with The Red Badge of Courage, which was acclaimed the first modern war novel. Crane's works introduced realism into American literature. But his innovative technique and use of symbolism gave much of his best work a romantic, rather than a naturalistic quality. Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1871 and was the 14th child of a Methodist minister. He started to write stories at the age of eight and at sixteen was writing articles for the New York Tribune. Crane studied at Lafayette College and Syracuse University. In 1890, he moved to New York where he lived a bohemian life and worked as a free-lance writer and journalist. While Crane supported himself by writing, he lived among the poor in the Bowery slums to research his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Later, he became a war correspondent and traveled to Greece, Cuba, Texas and Mexico to report on war events. His short story, The Open Boat, is based on his personal experience when his ship sank en route to Cuba in 1896. Crane spent several days drifting in an open boat with a few other passengers before being rescued. This experience impaired his health permanently. In 1898 he settled in Sussex, England, where he lived with an author and proprietress of a well-known brothel. Crane became friends with Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, and Henry James. In 1899, while in Greece, Crane wrote Active Service, which was based on the Greco-Turkish War. He then returned to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American War. However, shortly thereafter, tuberculosis and malarial fever that he contracted during his Cuban shipwreck experience overcame him. Crane died on June 5, 1900 at the young age of 29 in Badenweiler Germany. After Crane's death his works were neglected for many years until such writers as Amy Lowell and Willa Cather brought them back into public attention.