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The Red Badge of Courage

By Stephen Crane

By Stephen Crane

By Stephen Crane

By Stephen Crane

By Stephen Crane

By Stephen Crane

By Stephen Crane

By Stephen Crane

By Stephen Crane
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Feb 25, 2014 | ISBN 9780804168847

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Mar 01, 1981 | ISBN 9780553210118

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Feb 03, 2004 | ISBN 9780553898422

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Nov 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780679641292

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Jan 11, 2011 | 336 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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    About The Red Badge of Courage

    Stephen Crane’s immortal masterpiece about the nightmare of war was first published in 1895 and brought its young author immediate international fame. Set during the Civil War, it tells of the brutal disillusionment of a young recruit who had dreamed of the thrill and glory of war, only to find himself fleeing the horror of a battlefield. Shame over his cowardice drives him to seek to redeem himself by being wounded—earning what he calls the “red badge of courage.” Praised for its psychological insight and its intense and unprecedented realism in portraying the experience of men under fire, The Red Badge of Courage has been a beloved bestseller for more than a century.

    About The Red Badge of Courage

    First published in 1895, America’s greatest novel  of the Civil War was written before 21-year-old  Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of a  sham battle." But this powerful psychological  study of a young soldier’s struggle with the  horrors, both within and without, that war strikes the  reader with its undeniable realism and with its  masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riot  of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernest  Hemingway called the novel an American classic, and  Crane’s genius is as much apparent in his sharp,  colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episode  of war so intense, so immediate, so real that the  terror of battle becomes our own … in a  masterpiece so unique that many believe modern American  fiction began with Stephen Crane.

    About The Red Badge of Courage

    The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run….As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The Civil
    The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-
    able hardbound editions of impor-
    tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library’s seventy-
    fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring
    as its emblem the running torch-
    bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-
    gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world’s best books, at the best prices.

    About The Red Badge of Courage

    The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create ‘a psychological portrayal of fear.’ Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks ‘that perhaps in a battle he might run. . . . As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself.’ And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own ‘red badge’ when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. ‘The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields,’ Ford Madox Ford remarked later, ‘was gone forever.’

    About The Red Badge of Courage

    The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run….As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The Civil
    The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-
    able hardbound editions of impor-
    tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library’s seventy-
    fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring
    as its emblem the running torch-
    bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-
    gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world’s best books, at the best prices.

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    About Stephen Crane

    Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He attempted college twice, the second time failing a theme-writing course while writing articles for newspapers such as the New York Tribune. In 1892 Crane moved to the poverty of New York City’s… More about Stephen Crane

    About Stephen Crane

    Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He attempted college twice, the second time failing a theme-writing course while writing articles for newspapers such as the New York Tribune. In 1892 Crane moved to the poverty of New York City’s… More about Stephen Crane

    About Stephen Crane

    Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He attempted college twice, the second time failing a theme-writing course while writing articles for newspapers such as the New York Tribune. In 1892 Crane moved to the poverty of New York City’s… More about Stephen Crane

    About Stephen Crane

    Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He attempted college twice, the second time failing a theme-writing course while writing articles for newspapers such as the New York Tribune. In 1892 Crane moved to the poverty of New York City’s… More about Stephen Crane

    About Stephen Crane

    Stephen Crane was born in 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He attempted college twice, the second time failing a theme-writing course while writing articles for newspapers such as the New York Tribune. In 1892 Crane moved to the poverty of New York City’s… More about Stephen Crane

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Military Fiction

    Paperback | $8.95
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 25, 2014 | 160 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780804168847

    Category: Classic Fiction | Military Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $4.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Mar 01, 1981 | 160 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553210118

    Category: Classic Fiction | Military Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Feb 03, 2004 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9780553898422

    Category: Classic Fiction | Military Fiction

    Ebook | $3.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780679641292

    Category: Military Fiction | Audiobooks | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Jan 11, 2011 | 336 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780307916112

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    “The Red Badge Of Courage has long been considered the first great ‘modern’ novel of war by an American—the first novel of literary distinction to present war without heroics and this in a spirit of total irony and skepticism.”—Alfred Kazin

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