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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.

The Red Badge of Courage (Collins Classics)

Literature & Fiction

CRANE, STEPHEN

United States

William Collins

Glencoe Literature Library Study Guide

Reference

Glencoe Literature Library

The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Stephen Crane died at the age of 28 in Germany. In his short life, he produced stories that are among the most enduring in the history of American ficiton. The Red Badge of Courage manages to capture both the realistic grit and the grand hallucinations of soldiers at war. Maggie: A Girl on the Streets reflects the range of Crane's ability to invest the most tragic and ordinary lives with great insight. James Colvert writes in the introduction to this volume: "Here we find once again the major elements of Crane's art: the egotism of the hero, the indifference of nature, the irony of the narrator . . . Crane is concerned with the moral responsibility of the individual . . . (and) moral capability depends upon the ability to see through the illusions wrought by pride and conceit—the ability to see ourselves clearly and truly." Great Short Works of Stephen Crane Includes : The Red Badge of Courage; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; The Monster. Stories: An Experiment in Misery; A Mystery of Heroism; An Episode of War; The Upturned Face; The Open Boat; The Pace of Youth; The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky; The Blue Hotel.

Great Short Works of Stephen Crane (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

The stories and novels representing Stephen Crane's art at its finest. Includes The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Monster, The Blue Hotel, and other short stories.

Great Short Works of Stephen Crane

Perennial

Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of storiesamong them ,,The Monster,', ,,The Upturned Face,', ,,The Open Boat,', and the title storythat stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brilliantly conveyed through the cold, sometimes brutal irony of Crane's narrative voice.

An Experiment in Misery: Stories (Harper Perennial Classic Stories)

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

Introduction by Robert W. Stallman

The Red Badge of Courage

McGraw–Hill Education

Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895 and quickly became the benchmark for modern anti-war literature.

Stephen Cranes the Red Badge of Courage

Children's Books

Classics

PRENTICE/HALL

“A man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his vision—he is merely responsible for his quality of personal honesty.” In the course of his tragically abbreviated career, Stephen Crane (1871–1900) saw things that his contemporaries preferred to overlook—the low life of New York’s Irish slums; the tedium, brutality, and chaos that were the true conditions of the Civil War; the ambiguous contract that binds a terrified man to his killer and the damned to their human judges. He communicated what he saw with the same laconic factuality that characterized his journalism and, in the process, laid the foundations for the unblinking realism of Hemingway and Dos Passos. The Portable Stephen Crane allows us to appreciate the full scope and power of this writer’s vision. It contains three complete novels—Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, George’s Mother, and Crane’s masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage; nineteen short stories and sketches, including “The Blue Hotel” and “The Open Boat,” a barely fictionalized account of his own escape from shipwreck while covering the Cuban revolt against Spain; the previously unpublished essay “Above All Things”; letters and poems, plus a critical essay and notes by the noted Crane scholar Joseph Katz.

The Portable Stephen Crane (Portable Library)

Penguin Publishing Group

Puffin

This book gives a vivid fictionalised account of the experiences of an ordinary innocent young soldier on the battlefields of the American Civil War.

The Red Badge of Courage (Puffin Classics)

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

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The Red Badge of Courage (Collins Classics)

Glencoe Literature Library Study Guide

Great Short Works of Stephen Crane (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Great Short Works of Stephen Crane

An Experiment in Misery: Stories (Harper Perennial Classic Stories)

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Cranes the Red Badge of Courage

The Portable Stephen Crane (Portable Library)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage (Puffin Classics)