THE ATHENAEUMThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarStephen Crane
History
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA young soldier flees his first battle, is haunted by the cowardice of it, and spends the rest of the book trying to earn back a version of himself he can live with. Crane had never seen a battlefield when he wrote it, and veterans of the actual war swore he must have. Courage, this book argues, is mostly a story you tell yourself afterward and get to revise.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- On the History shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #73. In the public domain in the United States.