"The Open Boat" "The Open Boat," Crane's semiautobiographical account of an escape from a shipwreck, is "a tale intended to be after the fact: being the experience of four men from the sunk steamer Commodore."
*Note: A print copy of the anthology An Experiment in Misery may be requested from the SCF Bradenton Library.
Reading on a Theme
Writing about Themes: Taken from our Bloom's Literature database, this reading will give you a basic understanding of themes in literature.