The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Stephen Crane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451531809 ISBN 13: 9780451531803

Publisher: Signet Classics, 2011

Synopsis

Here is Stephen Crane's masterpiece, "The Red Badge of Courage," together with four of his most famous short stories. Outstanding in their portrayal of violent emotion and quiet tension, these texts led the way for great American writers such as Ernest Hemingway.

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From the Back Cover

First published in 1895, this small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. The novel is told through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young soldier caught up in an unnamed Civil War battle who is motivated not by the unselfish heroism of conventional war stories, but by fear, cowardice, and finally, egotism. However, in his struggle to find reality amid the nightmarish chaos of war, the young soldier also discovers courage, humility, and perhaps, wisdom. Although Crane had never been in battle before writing The Red Badge of Courage, the book was widely praised by experienced soldiers for its uncanny re-creation of the sights, sounds, and sense of actual combat. Its publication brought Crane immediate international fame and established him as a major American writer. Today, nearly a century later, the book ranks as an enduring landmark of American fiction.

About the Author

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was active as a reporter around the world in addition to being an acclaimed novelist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0451531809
• ISBN 13: 9780451531803
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: R W Stallman