Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage

by Monarch Notes

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Lesli Dustin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing in this book is amazing. Each word seems so carefully chosen and so significant with double meaning. I'm not a war book fan, but I understand why this book is a classic. The author is a master with words and I love to see how the main character grows up and becomes a man.

[MM]

Having relatives who fought this war and one died in the Anersonville prison made this more emphatic on a personal level.