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The Red Badge of Courage (Mass Market Paperback)

by Stephen Crane (Author) "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting ..." (more)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Classics; Reprint edition (Jul 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812504798
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812504798
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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A classic work of American literature...in full, as the author wrote it. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The intensity of its narrative and its naturalistic power earned Crane instant success, and led to his spending most of his brief remaining life war reporting. The other stories collected in this volume draw on this experience; `The Open Boat' (1898) was inspired by his fifty hour struggle with waves after his ship was sunk during an expedition to Cuba; `The Monster' (1899) is a bitterly ironic commentary on the ostracization of a doctor for harbouring the servant who was disfigured and lost his sanity rescuing his son. As a rare example of Crane working in a vein of American Gothic, it is particularly striking for its treatment of race and social injustice. `The Blue Hotel' traces the events that lead to a murder at a bar in a small Nebraska town. This edition is the most generously annotated edition of Crane's work, exploring it from a fresh critical perspective and focusing on his place as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy and his social as well as literary revisionism. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Overcoming Misconceptions:The Reality of War for Nonwarriors, 28 May 2004
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Red Badge of Courage (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
Peace is a rare circumstance among major nations in the last 150 years. When war pushes peace out, everyone quickly realizes why peace is so important and desirable. When peace returns, the next generation can quickly fail to grasp its significance. In extreme cases, this can lead to romanticism of war.

Books like The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front are important ways to pass along the message of how undesirable war is.

The Red Badge of Courage offers another benefit. Stephen Crane takes us into the mindset of mid-19th century America. At that time, the spiritual and the tangible were closely entertwined in peoples' minds. You will find a lot of religious metaphors in this book that a modern writer would be relatively unlikely to use.

Another benefit of reading The Red Badge of Courage is that it helps to understand the profound effect that the Civil War has had on the United States. The significance of these events remains fresh for many Americans, while others ignore the events totally.

Although it is certainly not an easy book to read, it can be a rewarding one. You will find that you can discuss this book with a high percentage of all the people you will ever meet who like to read. That's a pretty nice benefit from reading a fairly short book.

I also recommend that you also think about where in your own life you have developed misconceptions that could harm you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, 30 Oct 2001
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This review is from: The Red Badge of Courage (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
A very credible journey into the mind of a raw young soldier experiencing war for the first time.
Engrossing, and hard to put down, Crane's skillful writing conveys exactly what one would percieve would be the internal battles a frightened youngster would experience in such a situation. Relatively short, but one of the best war novels ever!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly powerful, 10 Oct 2007
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What's it's like to be in battle? Where do you get the courage to attack under enemy fire? If you're eager to find out without actually going into battle, John Keegan's book ''The Face of Battle" gives the best factual account that I know of, but for sheer emotional impact nothing outdoes "The Red Badge of Courage". Because it's fiction rather than fact this is the definitive book on the topic.

In a very simple and sparse language Crane succeeds in conveying the battle waged in Henry Fleming's mind (dreaming of heroism but confronted with cruelty and horror), and he does it with tremendous impact. So small a book yet so powerful, this is a gem everyone should read.
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