The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) FROM OUR EDITORS
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Young Henry Fleming dreams of finding glory and honor as a Union soldier
in the American Civil War. Yet he also harbors a hidden fear about how he
may react when the horror and bloodshed of battle begin. Fighting the
enemy without and the terror within, Fleming must prove himself and find
his own meaning of valor.
Unbelievable as it may seem, Stephen Crane had never been a
member of any army nor had taken part in any battle when he wrote
The Red Badge of Courage. But upon its publication in 1895, when
Crane was only twenty-four, Red Badge was heralded as a new kind of
war novel, marked by astonishing insight into the true psychology of
men under fire. Along with the seminal short stories included in this
volume—“The Open Boat,” “The Veteran,”
and “The Men in the Storm”—The Red Badge of
Courage unleashed Crane’s deeply influential impressionistic
style.
Richard Fusco has been an Assistant Professor of English at
Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A
specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and in
short-story narrative theory, he has published on a variety of
American, British, and Continental literary figures.
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