The Red Badge of Courage

Name: The Red Badge of Courage
Author: Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

English · 1895 · Fiction

Stephen Crane's novel follows a young Union soldier facing his first battles in the American Civil War, read for its vivid psychological realism.

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Chapter IThe cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs…
Chapter IIThe next morning the youth discovered that his tall comrade had been…
Chapter IIIWhen another night came, the columns, changed to purple streaks…
Chapter IVThe brigade was halted in the fringe of a grove. The men crouched…
Chapter VThere were moments of waiting. The youth thought of the village…
Chapter VIThe youth awakened slowly. He came gradually back to a position from…
Chapter VIIThe youth cringed as if discovered in a crime. By heavens, they had…
Chapter VIIIThe trees began softly to sing a hymn of twilight. The sun sank until…
Chapter IXThe youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier was…
Chapter XThe tattered man stood musing.
Chapter XIHe became aware that the furnace roar of the battle was growing…
Chapter XIIThe column that had butted stoutly at the obstacles in the roadway…
Chapter XIIIThe youth went slowly toward the fire indicated by his departed…
Chapter XIVWhen the youth awoke it seemed to him that he had been asleep for a…
Chapter XVThe regiment was standing at order arms at the side of a lane…
Chapter XVIA sputtering of musketry was always to be heard. Later, the cannon…
Chapter XVIIThis advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless…
Chapter XVIIIThe ragged line had respite for some minutes, but during its pause…
Chapter XIXThe youth stared at the land in front of him. Its foliages now seemed…
Chapter XXWhen the two youths turned with the flag they saw that much of the…
Chapter XXIPresently they knew that no firing threatened them. All ways seemed…
Chapter XXIIWhen the woods again began to pour forth the dark-hued masses of the…
Chapter XXIIIThe colonel came running along the back of the line. There were other…
Chapter XXIVThe roarings that had stretched in a long line of sound across the…

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The Red Badge of Courage

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