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Week 30 - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
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I haven't read this book, and actually have been putting it off. I don't know why but I have an idea that I won't like it... However it is one of this summer's SYNC audiobook offerings (July 31 – August 6) narrated by Frank Muller so I will probably try it then. (More information about SYNC is available online here).
Thanks for the info about SNYC, Leslie. It looks interesting.
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Me too; could be a good idea to "Listen" to it then ...
Being a public domain book, it can be downloaded from Gutenberg and also from librivox as an audiobook
LauraT wrote: "Being a public domain book, it can be downloaded from Gutenberg and also from librivox as an audiobook ..."I have the ebook on my Kindle.
LauraT wrote: "Readalong?"Let's play it by ear.
"Stephen Crane … completed the short novel that would become the godfather of all American war novels, and an inspiration for writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway and JD Salinger, while still in his early 20s. His subject, the war between the States, had actually ended before he was born, and he never experienced the horrors of battle. But the laconic realism of his prose, the fierce investigation of the soldier's psyche, and his impressionistic use of colour and detail convinced many readers that Crane was a veteran turned novelist.
Some critics see The Red Badge of Courage as a founding text in the modernist movement, a seminal novel whose influence haunts the composition of The Naked and the Dead, Catch-22, The Thin Red Line and Matterhorn, among others. Crane, a struggling freelance writer, researched his subject partly through magazine accounts of the civil war, a popular subject, and partly through conversations with veterans."
You can see the full article from the Guardian here.