The Red Badge of Courage
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Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Appleton, 1895. Many editions in print.
The archetypal novel of Civil War combat. In a setting which is definitely Virginia but deliberately generic, young Henry Fleming, a Union infantryman, anticipates, runs from, and finally succeeds in battle, at a terrible cost to his innocence.
Links
- The Stephen Crane Society
- Eric J. Gislason's critical essay on The Red Badge of Courage