The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured “Backgrounds and Sources” section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and includes thought-provoking material by Jay Martin, Charles...
Bring the Classics To Life. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are defined and used in context.
Timeless Classics--designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classic novels will grab a student's attention from the first page.
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, first published on October 5th 1895.
Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time—so groundbreaking that critics consider it to be the first work of modern American fiction.
The narrator tells about a young, 19-year-old boy named Henry Fleming, a recruit in the American Civil War. The story is about the meaning of courage.
Initially shortened and serialized in newspapers in December 1894, the novel was published in full in October 1895. A longer version of the work, based on Crane's original manuscript, was published in 1983.
Graphic novel version of the classic.
In 1863, Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier waiting to see his first battle during America's bloodiest conflict.
In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
Initially shortened and serialized in newspapers in December 1894, the novel was published in full in October 1895. A longer version of the work, based on Crane's original manuscript, was published in 1982.
In the spring of 1863, while engaged in the fierce Civil War battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
The Red Badge of Courage: And Other Stories
BIBLIOGRAPHY Other Works by Stephen Crane Movers Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893; 1896) Georges Mother ( 1896) The Third Violet (1897) Active Service (1899) The O'Ruddy (1903) SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS The Little Regiment and Other ...
Presents Stephen Crane's novella about a Union recruit in the Civil War whose dreams of glory are shattered by the realities of battle, and includes two other stories.
Each novel, complete in just 80-pages, has been painstakingly adapted to retain the integrity of the original work. Each provides the reader a sense of the author's style and an understanding of the novel's theme.
Henry Fleming, a raw Union Army recruit in the American Civil War, is anxious to confirm his patriotism and manhood - to earn his 'badge of courage'.
The classic story of a sensitive boy under the strain of war moving from cowardice to courage. This book is about a young Union soldier under fire for the first time in the Civil War.
An abridged version of the tale set in the spring of 1863 when, while engaged in the fierce battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting ...
Facsimile of the first edition, published, fall 1895 at New York by D. Appleton and Company.