Authors: Stephen Crane, Roger Dressler
ISBN-13: 9781593350222, ISBN-10: 1593350228
Format: MP3 on CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: Unabridged
Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) was a war correspondent, novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of Maggie, The Red Badge of Courage, George's Mother and The Black Riders. Ernest Hemingway on The Red Badge of Courage: "One of the finest books of our literature…it is all as much of one piece as a great poem is."
Published thirty years after the Civil War, this "impressionistic" American classic tells a war story in a thoroughly modern way - without a trace of romanticizing. Through the eyes of ordinary soldier Henry Fleming, we follow his psychological turmoil, from the excitement of patriotism to the bloody realities of battle and his flight from it. In the end, he overcomes his fear and disillusionment, and fights with courage.
Introduction | ||
Composition and Publication History | ||
Select Bibliography | ||
A Chronology of Stephen Crane | ||
The Red Badge of Courage | 3 | |
The Veteran | 118 | |
The Open Boat | 123 | |
The Monster | 147 | |
The Blue Hotel | 202 | |
Explanatory Notes | 230 |