university of virginia press

Stephen Crane's tales of Whilomville range in form from his last great short novel "The Monster" to some of the simplest sketches he ever wrote. But as the stories began to accumulate, Crane saw them as constituting a single group. Volume VII of The Works of Stephen Crane brings together "The Monster," "His New Mittens," and Whilomville Stories.

Fredson Bowers was Linden Kent Professor of English at the University of Virginia. J. C. Levenson was Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English at the University of Virginia.