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The Open Boat

First published in 1898 and based on Stephen Crane’s experience of the sinking of the U.S.S. Commodore, “The Open Boat” tells the story of four men adrift in a boat off the coast of Florida after a shipwreck. Crane uses the men’s ordeal to explore the human relationship to the natural world.

LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms

• Crane, Stephen
• Open Boat

Call Numbers for Browsing the Shelves

• PS1449 .C85

Circulating Books – A Selected List

• Bloom, Harold (ed.).  Stephen Crane.  1987.

                       Call Number:  PS1449.C85 Z925 1987

• Cady, Edwin H.  Stephen Crane.  1980.

                      Call Number:  PS1449.C85 Z575 1980

• Crane, Stephen.  The Open Boat and Other Stories.  1993.

                        Call Number:  PS1449.C85 A6 1993

• Gibson, Donald B.  The Fiction of Stephen Crane.  1968.

                        Call Number:  PS1449.C85 Z62

• Szumski, Bonnie (ed.). Readings on Stephen Crane.  1998.

                        Call Number:  PS1449.C85 Z82 1998

• Wolford, Chester L.  Stephen Crane: A Study of the Short Fiction.  1989.

                     Call Number:  PS1449.C85 Z984 1989

Reference Materials

• Critical Survey of Short Fiction. 2^nd Revised Ed.  – Call Number: REF PN3321 .C7 2001

o   Pg. 657

• Masterplots II: Short Story Series (Revised Edition) – Call Number: REF PN3326 .M27 2004

o   Vol. 5, pg. 3026-28

• Schaefer, Michael. A Reader’s Guide to the Short Stories of Stephen Crane.  1996.

                     Call Number:  REF PS1449 .C85 Z824 1996

• Short Story Criticism – Call Number:  PN3321 .S5

o   Vol. 7, pg. 100-01, 103-04, 107-13, 116-18, 120, 140, 142-43, 145, 148-49, 151-53

o   Vol. 56, pg. 58, 60-6, 82-4, 88-9, 105

o   Vol. 70, pg. 28-167

• Short Stories for Students – Call Number: REF PN3330 .S386

o   Vol. 4, pg. 197-216

• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism – Call Number:  REF PN771 .G27

o   Vol. 11, pg. 125, 127, 136, 139-41, 146, 148, 158, 160, 162-64, 167

o   Vol. 17, pg. 65-7, 78, 82

o   Vol. 32, pg. 150, 165

Research Databases

To access Valencia’s research databases, open your Atlas account, select ‘Search the Library’, then select ‘Databases A-Z’.

• Academic Search Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale

This Research Guide is designed to help users find information on a particular topic within the Valencia College East Campus Library.  This is by no means a comprehensive list of resources and other resources may be available on this topic.  Please check the LINCCWeb, Valencia East’s online catalog, to verify the availability of circulating books within the library.  Feel free to ask a librarian for help if you need further assistance.

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Last Revised on November 21, 2021