 Crane's contract with Appleton allowed him to receive a flat ten percent royalty of all copies sold.However, the contract also stipulated that he was not to receive royalties from the books sold in Great Britain, where they were released by Heinemann in early 1896 as part of its Pioneer Series.In 1982, W. W. Norton & Company published a version of the novel based on Crane's original 1894 manuscript of 55,000 words.