The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane is now recognised as one of a handful of daring innovators who helped shape modern American fiction. In the midst of this chaotic outer world, he creates an intricate inner world as he takes us inside the head of Henry Fleming. Read more captures the strange beauty of war: the brilliant red flags against a blue sky, steel bayonets flashing in the morning sun as soldiers step off into battle. Like an impressionist painter, Crane also. It evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war: the acrid smoke, the incessant rumours of coming battles, the filth and cold, the numbing monotony, the unworldly wailing of the dying. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier.

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Previously he had never felt obliged to wrestle too. Also included are two short stories: The Veteran Critiques, citations (3), extraits de The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories de Stephen Crane. With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. This novel evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war: the acrid smoke, the incessant rumours of coming battles, the filth and cold, the numbing monotony, the unworldly wailing of the dying. Reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. Stephen Crane is now recognised as one of a handful of daring innovators who helped shape modern American fiction.Description for The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories Paperback. Like an impressionist painter, Crane also captures the strange beauty of war: the brilliant red flags against a blue sky, steel bayonets flashing in the morning sun as soldiers step off into battle.

The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time.

The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane