The Red Badge of Courage (Illustrated)

This edition includes 10 illustrations. Stephen Crane’s most famous and widely read novel, The Red Badge of Courage is a classic war story, published in 1895 and set during the American Civil War. It follows the fate of an 18-year-old named Henry Fleming, a soldier in the Union army whose initial fear and desertion in the face of battle haunts him as he seeks some way to redeem himself for his past cowardice. Not only is Crane’s novel a timeless depiction of the terrors of war, it was the first work of fiction to realistically describe the jarring intensity of a battlefield.