The Red Badge of Courage

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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.

About the author

Stephen Crane, geb. 1871 in New Jersey, begann bereits mit sechzehn Jahren als Reporter für eine kleine Agentur der New Yorker 'Tribune' zu schreiben. Damit begann die typische Laufbahn des Schriftstellers in Amerika, die Laufbahn eines Ambrose Bierce, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner: Über Journalismus und Sport zur Literatur. Seine Kurzgeschichten zählen zu den amerikanischen Klassikern des Genres.

Summary

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Product details

• Authors: Stephen Crane
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780007902200
• ISBN: 978-0-00-790220-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 180 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Collins Classics; Collins Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, Classic fiction: general and literary, war; adventure; soldier; civil war; American