Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge Of Courage

In 1895 Stephen Crane achieved early fame with his powerful, enigmatic portrayal of a raw recruits experience of war, The Red Badge of courage. Although Crame had never experienced battle, he wrote with rare insight and immediacy of his young protagonists fluctuating emotions, in a style that had a profound influence on American fiction. This selection includes the 1896 coda to the story, \The Vetran\, and the best of Cranes other fiction the impressionist masterpiece \The Open Boat\; The Monster, perhaps the most complex and disturbing all of Cranes works; and \The Blue Hotel\, his greatest western story. This edition explores Cranes work from a fresh critical perspective and introduces new research on the imaginitive relationship between Cranes novel and the Civil War. Includes -Textual note -Chronology

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...

Stephen Crane's weirdly impressionistic "The Red Badge of Courage" is one of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War--and the first non-romantic account to gain wide popularity. Paul Sorrentino introduces "Red Badge" to a new generation of readers for a fuller appreciation of the novel and its effects. He has selected as his text the first edition, published by D. Appleton & Co. in 1895.

(Grade Level 3) This novel has been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are defined and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require the student to recall specific details, sequence the events, draw inferences from story context, develop another name for the chapter, and choose the main idea. In our society, knowledge of this Classic is a cultural necessity.

"He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage."The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, tells the story of young Henry Fleming, who joins the Union Army during the American Civil War. Henry undergoes a transformation while his courage and cowardice, his pride and self-pity, are thrust to the forefront as he fights in bloody conflict after bloody conflict.The eBook contains:Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility, Searchable TextIntroduction, including an image of Stephen...

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Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge Of Courage. New York. 1960. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Edition. Very Good In Wrappers. Foreword By R.W. Stallman.. CD16. 224 pages. Cover: James Hill. . A pioneer in the realistic school of American fiction, and a forerunner of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane probed the thoughts and actions of trapped or baited men fighting the destructive forces in nature, in other human beings, and in themselves. . . Here published complete from the original...

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Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage is an anti-war novel meant to oppose the romantic and patriotic notions which many people---especially young men like the protagonist of the book---have about war. The book shows how the young Union soldier is quickly awakened to the harsh and horrible reality of battle, and also how he survived the Civil War and for the first time in his life came to appreciate "quiet skies, fresh green fields, cool streams---a life of quiet and lasting peace" (108). Crane...

Book Details Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. Descombes, Roland. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. Leather Boards. 8vo. Red leather boards with gilt title to spine and gilt decoration to front boards. Raised bands to spine. Pristine interior with tight binding. Full gilt edges. Cloth endpages. Very attractive binding. LIT/042205. Fine [Book #15994] See all items in Literature Price: $35.00

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...

Published thirty years after the Civil War, this "impressionistic" American classic tells a war story in a thoroughly modern way - without a trace of romanticizing. Through the eyes of ordinary soldier Henry Fleming, we follow his psychological turmoil, from the excitement of patriotism to the bloody realities of battle and his flight from it. In the end, he overcomes his fear and disillusionment, and fights with courage.