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The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1895
Pages
Pages 180

A young Union soldier panics and runs from his first battle, then slinks back to his regiment nursing a wound he lies about. He charges into the next fight to prove to himself, more than to anyone else, that he is not a coward.

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

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