THE JOHN HARVARD LIBRARY

The Red Badge of Courage

Edited by Paul Sorrentino

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$11.50 • £9.95 • €10.50

ISBN 9780674033993

Publication Date: 04/15/2009

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192 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

Belknap Press

The John Harvard Library

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Stephen Crane’s weirdly impressionistic The Red Badge of Courage is one of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War—and the first nonromantic account to gain wide popularity. Paul Sorrentino introduces Red Badge to a new generation of readers for a fuller appreciation of the novel and its effects. He has selected as his text the first edition, published by D. Appleton & Co. in 1895.

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