Stephen. Crane

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

First published in 1895, America's greatest novelnbsp;nbsp;of the Civil War was written before 21-year-oldnbsp;nbsp;Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of anbsp;nbsp;sham battle." But this powerful psychologicalnbsp;nbsp;study of a young soldier's struggle with thenbsp;nbsp;horrors, both within and without, that war strikes thenbsp;nbsp;reader with its undeniable realism and with itsnbsp;nbsp;masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riotnbsp;nbsp;of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernestnbsp;nbsp;Hemingway called the novel an American classic, andnbsp;nbsp;Crane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp,nbsp;nbsp;colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episodenbsp;nbsp;of war so intense, so immediate, so real that thenbsp;nbsp;terror of battle becomes our own ... in anbsp;nbsp;masterpiece so unique that many believe modern Americannbsp;nbsp;fiction began with Stephen Crane.

The Red Badge of Courage

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Stephen Crane

Wendell Minor

Holt, Rinehart and Winston Staff

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Florida

With Connections

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is an impressionistic novel by American author Stephen Crane. 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. Although Crane was born after the war and had never seen battle himself, the novel is one of the most influential American stories of the character of the American fighting spirit and the ultimate source of bravery, written by an American author. Crane met and spoke with a number of veterans as a student and he created what is widely regarded as an unusually realistic depiction of a young man in battle.