The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
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The Red Badge of Courage

Author: Stephen Crane

Narrator: Walter Lewis

Abridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 11/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

This great classic of the American Civil War is one of the most important accounts of the reality of war and its aftermath. It deals with the effects of the war on one man but it speaks for a generation.

About Stephen Crane

American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900) won international fame with The Red Badge of Courage, which was acclaimed as the first modern war novel. Crane's works introduced realism into American literature, but his innovative technique and use of symbolism gave much of his best work a romantic rather than a naturalistic quality.

Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1871, the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister. He started to write stories at the age of eight, and at sixteen he was writing articles for the New York Tribune. Crane studied at Lafayette College and Syracuse University, then moved to New York, where he lived a bohemian life and worked as a freelance writer and journalist.

While Crane supported himself by writing, he lived among the poor in the Bowery slums to research his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Later, he became a war correspondent and traveled to Greece, Cuba, Texas, and Mexico to report on war events. His short story "The Open Boat" is based on his personal experience aboard a ship that sank en route to Cuba in 1896. Crane spent several days drifting in an open boat with a few other passengers before being rescued. Unfortunately, this experience permanently impaired his health.

In 1898, Crane settled in Sussex, England, where he lived with an author and the proprietress of a well-known brothel. In 1899, while in Greece, Crane wrote Active Service, which was based on the Greco-Turkish War. He then returned to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American War. However, shortly thereafter, the tuberculosis and malarial fever that he contracted during his Cuban shipwreck experience overcame him. Crane died on June 5, 1900, at the age of twenty-nine in Badenweiler, Germany.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Diane on May 09, 2012

Stephen Crane's life was abysmally cut short by the age of 28. What stories he did get out into the world were all rather short and focused on child-like (if not in fact child) characters. His most popular story, the one that put him on the map, is also his most celebrated work. The Red Badge of Cou......more

Goodreads review by Lili on May 29, 2023

I don’t care about the civil war idk why I read this.......more

Goodreads review by Vivian on December 29, 2018

3 stars is a bit too generous, let's give it a 2.5~ this is another book for APLAC~ the first few chapters were honestly rough; this book is related to our realism unit and there are so many excessive arbitrary details that are unnecessary, and it's bad enough that it's about the civil war like cmon......more

Goodreads review by Monta on June 28, 2008

Another classic I should have read long before but didn't. It's quite short. Although I didn't enjoy it a ton--it certainly couldn't be called entertaining--I'm glad I've now read it. War is a sad thing. I really thought the protagonist was going to die at the end, and it was a pleasant surprise to......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on October 14, 2022

RESEÑA – La roja insignia del valor (1895) – Autor: Stephen Crane Valoración: 3/5 – Traducción (Juan Aparicio-Belmonte): 4/5 – Género: novela bélica – Estilo: realismo / impresionismo – Obras similares: Historias de soldados y civiles de Ambrose Bierce Stephene Crane tuvo que haber sido un tío curioso. Esc......more