The red badge of courage a war novel by Stephen Crane (Original Version) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781523448661)

The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane. Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.

Author: Stephen Crane
ISBN-10: 1523448660
ISBN-13: 9781523448661
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2016
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d