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.