Parody Stories

The volume contains three of Crane’s longer short works, each exploring themes of morality, prejudice, and human weakness.

A widowed and manipulative woman in her mid-thirties who wants a husband for herself and her daughter.

A satirical work where Jerome takes readers on an exploration of the clichés, stock characters, and absurdities of the 19th-century melodrama.

Israel Potter leaves his home in Massachusetts to fight in the American Revolutionary War. After fighting at Bunker Hill, he is captured by the British.

A social critique centered on a kind, modest young woman born and raised in Marshalsea Prison for Debt in London.

A humorous sequel to his earlier novel Three Men in a Boat. It follows the same three friends on another misadventure.

A novella that follows the transformation of Scrooge, a cold-hearted old man who despises Christmas.

A boy's father dies before he is born, and his loving mother remarries a cruel man who mistreats the boy.

A semi-autobiographical novel, drawing on the author's own youthful experiences at sea.

Three friends decide to take a boating holiday on the River Thames from Kingston to Oxford. They are accompanied by a mischievous dog.