The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories [Paperback]

Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition ofThe Red Badge of Courage(1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. This volume also includes the short stories The Open Boat (1898), The Monster (1899), and The Blue Hotel . The editors explore Crane's work from a fresh critical perspective, focusing on his role as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy, and his social as well as literary revisionism.

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