THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE Crane's masterpiece - the deeply affecting study of a young soldier in the Civil War who painfully grows to courage and manhood. THE OPEN BOAT Four shipwrecked men struggle against a pitiless sea in this superb story, which H.G. Wells has called "the fines short story in the English language." THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY In an engaging and suspenseful tale of the West, the newlywed sheriff of Yellow Sky comes a hair-trigger away from death. THE MONSTER Crane's major piece of social satire brings a shocking moral issue into question when a small town is confronted with a disfigured hero. THE BLUE HOTEL The tragi-comic story of a Swede in "the Wild West" of Nebraska, whose fear conspires with a chain of events to fashion an inevitable fate.