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The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Original publication
1895
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
282
Difficulty
★★☆
Genres
History, Adventure
Translated from
English

Book summary

Henry Fleming, an inexperienced young soldier, goes to war with idealized notions of courage and glory. Confronted with the violence of combat, he doubts, flees, and struggles against his own fear. Gradually, he seeks to understand what it truly means to be brave. His inner journey becomes as important as the battles themselves. The author offers a realistic, psychological vision of war, probing fear, honor, and the construction of identity under trial.

The plot

A young farmer goes off to war. Henry dreams of glorious battles. Against his mother’s wishes, he leaves the farm to enlist in the army.

The world of the book

The United States, 1861 to 1865. For four years, the North and the South of the United States are at war: this is the Civil War. The South wants to form its own country, above all to keep slavery. Northern soldiers…

The author

He writes about a war he never saw. Stephen Crane is born six years after the Civil War. As a teenager, he attends a military school, where he shines at baseball. As a journalist in New York, he reads accounts by…

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