Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.

The red badge of courage / Stephen Crane. - Reader's Digest ed. - Hertfordshire : Wordsworth, 1994. - 156 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Wordsworth classics . - Wordsworth classics .

Reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. This novel 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.

0895771551 9781853260841 1853260843

2005281872


Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863--Fiction.


United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.


Historical fiction.
War stories.
Fiction.

PS1449.C85 / C891r 1994

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