The Red Badge of Courage (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Crane, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007902204 ISBN 13: 9780007902200

Publisher: William Collins, 2011

Synopsis

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‘He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.’

Following one soldier’s journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the American Civil War. Fighting for the Union army, Henry Fleming is thrown into a bloody war where the harsh realities and horrors of battle quickly become evident. Fearful, occasionally vain, but always viewing the war with honest eyes, Henry eventually comes to thrive as a soldier in combat, and it is with a a new conscience and outlook that he matures into manhood.

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Review:

"As to 'masterpiece, ' there is no doubt that "The Red Badge of Courage" is that."
--Joseph Conrad

" As to 'masterpiece, ' there is no doubt that "The Red Badge of Courage" is that."
--Joseph Conrad

"As to 'masterpiece, ' there is no doubt that The Red Badge of Courage is that."
--Joseph Conrad

From the Back Cover:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0007902204
• ISBN 13: 9780007902200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208