On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army by a river. Among the soldiers is eighteen-year-old volunteer Henry Fleming, who has enlisted
Henry Fleming is a young private in the Union army during the American Civil War—a farm boy untested by battle.Faced with charging rebels, he flees. With his ideals shattered and his heart burde
With no idea of the horrors of war, young Henry Fleming has romantic notions of the hero he will be. Those illusions are destroyed when he enters his first battle. Now he must make the most difficult
Young Civil War soldier Henry Fielding endures the nightmare of battle as he comes to grips with his fears and feelings of cowardice. Stephen Crane's powerful, imaginative, emotionally compelling des
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. Also included are two short stories: The Veteran * The Open Book The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of al
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive wr
