With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
Also included are two short stories:
The Veteran * The Open BookThe Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. 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. 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. In the midst of this chaotic outer world, he creates an intricate inner world as he takes us inside the head of Henry Fleming.
Stephen Crane is now recognised as one of a handful of daring innovators who helped shape modern American fiction.
- ISBN13 9781841580470
- Publish Date 14 November 2000 (first published 1 January 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Birlinn Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English