The Blue Hotel

"The Blue Hotel" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story first appeared in 1898 in two installments in Collier's Weekly for November 26 and December 3, 1898.^[1] Then in the collection entitled The Monster and Other Stories. It is perhaps the most widely read of all the tales in the collection and while it may seem, on the surface, to be a rather straightforward story about a man who gets in trouble after a stay at the Palace Hotel, there are several complex themes that drive the work and in some ways, define many of the overarching themes in novels like Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and more generally, of Crane’s entire body of work. Stylistically, this work breaks away from the standards of the time, often delving into the realms of Expressionism, a style not readily found in the American literary Canon.

Adaptations

1999: The Coxcomb (1999 album), a musical adaptation by David Grubbs

References

↑ Nina Baym, general editor; Robert S. Levine, associate general editor, eds. (2013). The Norton anthology of American literature (Shorter 8th ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-91887-8.

External links

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The Blue Hotel

"The Blue Hotel", full text on the University of Virginia Library's website

Stephen Crane

Bibliography

Novels and novellas	Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) The Red Badge of Courage (1895) George's Mother (1896) The Monster (1898) Flowers of Asphalt (attributed)

Short stories	"The Open Boat" (1897) "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" (1898) "The Blue Hotel" (1899)

Poetry collections	The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)

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