GEORGE'S MOTHER.
By STEPHEN CRANE.
Cloth, 2s.
Saturday Review.
'From first to last it goes with immense vigour and sympathy. But the story must be read for its power to be understood; quotation fails, for the simple reason that it is a bare story and nothing beyond. Apart from its distinctive qualities, English readers will welcome this book as an indication of the growth of a real and independent critical method across the Atlantic, side by side and directing really original work.'
Athenæum.
'A striking scene of the relations, in a rough world, between a boy and his mother.'
Speaker.
'Stephen Crane proved conclusively in "The Red Badge of Courage" his possession of an extraordinary power of vivid and accurate vision expressed with startling poignancy of phrase; and in his later production, "George's Mother," we find the same rugged directness and almost savage intensity, the same contempt for conventional graces of style, and the love for violent colouring, which marked his previous work.'
Daily Chronicle.
'The gradual progress of deterioration in George Kelcey is very briefly but very cleverly and convincingly set out.'
St. James's Gazette.
'It is a tour de force of description and analysis, this terrible scene of George's debauch—not in the least laboured, or Zolaistic, or photographic, but amazingly actual, and lightened with a grim sense of humour.'
By the Author of 'Into the Highways and Hedges.'