The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE - AN EPISODE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
THE VETERAN
THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY
I
II
III
IV
THE BLUE HOTEL
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
A SELF-MADE MAN - AN EXAMPLE OF SUCCESS THAT ANYONE CAN FOLLOW
THE OPEN BOAT - A TALE INTENDED TO BE AFTER THE FACT: BEING THE EXPERIENCE OF ...
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
SELECTED POETRY
Explanatory Notes
PENGUIN
CLASSICS
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES
STEPHEN CRANE was born in 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, the youngest of a family of fourteen children. His father was a prominent Methodist minister and his mother, niece of a Methodist bishop, was a leading churchwoman. After brief attendances at Lafayette College and then Syracuse University, Crane joined his brother’s news agency in New Jersey and, while continuing to pursue freelance journalism, drifted into the bohemia of lower Manhattan. His first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), failed to find a reading public but was enthusiastically received by Hamlin Garland and William Dean Howells, who encouraged his literary career. With his next novel, The Red Badge of Courage (1895), he became an instant, international celebrity. As a journalist Crane reported from the American West, Mexico, Greece, and Cuba, as well as New York, and also converted a number of his experiences into fiction. The stories and sketches he wrote following the composition of The Red Badge of Courage are among the finest short works in all of American literature. In 1899, Crane and his wife, Cora, settled in England, where his tubercular condition was aggravated by the relentless work schedule he undertook in order to meet his debts. He died in a sanitarium in Germany in June 1900.
GARY SCHARNHORST is editor of American Literary Realism and editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship. He has held Fulbright fellowships to Germany and at present is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He has published books on Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W. D. Howells, Bret Harte, Horatio Alger Jr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
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The Red Badge of Courage first published in the United States of America
by D. Appleton and Company 1895
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories published in Penguin Books 1991
The edition with an introduction and notes by Gary Scharnhorst published in Penguin Books 2005
Introduction and notes copyright © Gary Scharnhorst, 2005
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
The red badge of courage and other stories / Stephen Crane ; edited with an introduction and notes
by Gary Scharnhorst.
p. cm.
Contents: The red badge of courage—The veteran—The bride comes to Yellow Sky—The blue hotel—
A self-made man—The open boat. Selected poetry. The black riders—Do not weep, maiden, for war
is kind—A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices—The trees in the garden rained flowers.
eISBN : 978-1-101-09835-6
1. Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863—Fiction. 2. Virginia—History—
Civil War, 1861-1865—Fiction. 3. United States—Social life and customs—Fiction.
I. Scharnhorst, Gary. II. Title.
PS1449.C85A6 2005
813’.4—dc22 2005050900
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