The Red Badge of Courage

Authors: Foote, Shelby (INT) & Crane, Stephen
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC004000, FIC025000, FIC032000
ISBN: 9780679641292, Related ISBNs: 0307916111, 0394557298, 0394604938, 0553210114, 0679432094
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: 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.'
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