--- product_id: 5207251 title: "The Open Boat and Other Stories" brand: "stephen crane" price: "6315CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/5207251-the-open-boat-and-other-stories store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # The Open Boat and Other Stories **Brand:** stephen crane **Price:** 6315CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Open Boat and Other Stories by stephen crane - **How much does it cost?** 6315CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/5207251-the-open-boat-and-other-stories) ## Best For - stephen crane enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted stephen crane brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Open Boat and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories) ## Images ![The Open Boat and Other Stories - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91l65CIYjWL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Writing style is unique. *by S***P on Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021* The stories are moving and powerfully written. A definitely different style than the time was known for. I got the kindle version along with the paperback. MUCH easier to read as the kindle is formatted with digital fonts but the paperback seems to be printed as if each page was a jpeg so the type is a bit difficult to read. They could reprint it but the interest probably won't cover the cost. Worth a read! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars A great Realist American Writer deserving of wider readership *by A***1 on Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2017* Four men in a dinghy adrift on a sea for 30 hours. The tempest of waves and a great shark occasionally circling around the perimeter of the boat. And the men rowing endlessly as if it was their only tangible way of protesting against their fates. It all happened in reality because the author Stephen Crane himself experienced the ordeal as one of the four men from the sunk SS Commodore off the coast of Florida en route to Cuba, where Crane had been sent as a war correspondent. The story of the Open Boat is as realistic as it can be based upon a factual event the author himself was fatefully partaken in.The four survivors of the vessel were aggregates in a dinghy bound by a remote hope of finding a rescue crew in the middle of the ocean that moved them with terrible grace of waves. The men were a captain, a cook, an oiler, and a correspondent, who was the author himself. There was a subtle brotherhood of men built in the boat who took care of each other. Crane surmised that the captain's heartfelt devotion to the safety of the motley crew resulted in comradeship, which the author himself had always regarded as a hypocritical concept of men until then.There were indeed moments of despair as their drifting became protracted, and the author saw this as nature not regarding human as important. He would jeer at any signs of nature in any deity form because thinking of the captain and the two other seamen who had worked so hard on the sea in such distress was the abominable injustice.Stephen Crane was a great American realist writer who later influenced Ernest Hemingway. Born in 1871 as a ninth child of Protestant Methodist parents in Newark, NJ, his literary talent began when he wrote his first poem at the age of eight. Although brilliant, Crane was not academically inclined, so he left University of Syracuse and became a kind of itinerant writer. It is said that Crane was a naturalist writer who emphasized observation in the portrayal of reality based on scientific principles of objectivity and detachment applied to the story of human characteristics. However, in my opinion, he was more of a realist writer who focused on objective, truthful presentations of details of the ordinary lives influenced by Gustave Flaubert and George Eliot. In this story, Crane's use of vocabulary was pity and straightforward with elegant expressions of emotions and feelings that so appropriately described the situations in which the characters were trapped.After Crane's untimely death at the age of twenty-eight in a Black Forest sanitorium in Germany, Crane's works began to gain their long overdue acclaim, one of which was this story of the sunk vessel and his own experience thereof. Stephen Crane's works should deserve wider readership because he's the first and foremost American writer in Realism literary movement who paid attention to the lives of the ordinary by being the experience of living among the ordinary and writing the existential presentations of the ordinary lives. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Set of Short Stories by a Classic Author *by T***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2013* A Classic Set of Short Stories by a Classic Author; " The Open Boat " is one of the best short stories you will ever read; and I picked up this set for a outright steal at Amazon; Try the Sample if you must, but you won't be sorry for your purchase; Three Great Reads ## Frequently Bought Together - The Open Boat and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories) - Their Eyes Were Watching God - Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America (Penguin Classics) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/5207251-the-open-boat-and-other-stories](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/5207251-the-open-boat-and-other-stories) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-06-05*