Red Badge of Courage Books and Editions

When The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, Stephen Crane was a struggling American writer. He was 23. This book made him famous, but the novel has also given us perspective on the Civil War period, war in general, a boy coming of age, and works that are considered to be part of the great American classics. Find historical and contextual background material in these books.

1. Stephen Crane: Prose and Poetry - Library of America

This edition of Stephen Crane's work is from the Library of America. The volume includes: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage, Stories, Sketches, Journalism, The Black Riders, and War is Kind.

2. The Red Badge of Courage: A Norton Critical Edition

by Stephen Crane. W.W. Norton. From the publisher: "The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the first edition of the novel, published by D. Appleton & Company in 1895, conservatively emended. As in previous editions, Crane’s uncancelled but unpublished manuscript pages, including his discarded Chapter XII, are presented in an appendix."

3. Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories - Oxford University Press

by Stephen Crane, Fiona Robertson (Editor), and Anthony Mellors (Editor). Oxford University Press. From the publisher, "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."

4. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Penguin

by Stephen Crane. Penguin. From the publisher: "One of the greatest books about war ever written. Young Henry Fleming had always dreamt of performing heroic deeds in battle. But the reality, as a raw recruit in the American Civil War, is a mental and physical torment."

6. New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage

by Lee Clark Mitchell. Cambridge University Press. From the publisher: "In his introduction to this volume, Lee Clark Mitchell discusses how Crane broke with the conventions of both fiction and journalism to create a uniquely disruptive prose style. The five essays that follow each explore different aspects of the novel."

7. Red Badge of Courage - Brilliance Audio

by Stephen Crane. Read by Roger Dressler. Brilliance Audio. From the publisher: "Bored with farm life, and anxious for some excitement, Henry Fleming sets off to join the Union troops fighting the Civil War. An inexperienced fighter, he is anxious to get into battle to prove his patriotism and courage."