The Red Badge of Courage (Chump Change Edition) - Softcover

Crane, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1640320660 ISBN 13: 9781640320666

Publisher: Chump Change, 1895

Synopsis

Unabridged version of The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, offered here for chump change. A breakthrough novel of American literature, it changed the perception of what literature should be or do.

The book tells the ambitious tale of Henry Fleming, Civil War soldier, who tries to avenge his feelings of cowardice with a wound, a “red badge,” so that none could accuse him thereafter of any inappropriate action.

Read the resonating tale that has never been out of print for over 100 years in this affordably printed volume.

Contents

Chapter 1            3
Chapter 2            7
Chapter 3            11
Chapter 4            15
Chapter 5            17
Chapter 6            20
Chapter 7            23
Chapter 8            24
Chapter 9            27
Chapter 10          29
Chapter 11          31
Chapter 12          34
Chapter 13          37
Chapter 14          39
Chapter 15          42
Chapter 16          43
Chapter 17          46
Chapter 18          48
Chapter 19          50
Chapter 20          52
Chapter 21          55
Chapter 22          57
Chapter 23          59
Chapter 24          61

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The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The Civil
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chump Change
• Publication date: 1895
• ISBN 10: 1640320660
• ISBN 13: 9781640320666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64