The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Like the Carroll volume above, this edition of the seasoned veteran provides a new twist. Crane's Badge was originally serialized in the New York Press in 1894, a year before the story was published in novel form. This volume offers both the slightly different serial version and the finished work. Though every library no doubt has numerous copies of Red Badge, academic and public libraries supporting American literature curricula should pop for this one, too, especially at the price.
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The Red Badge of Courage familiar to many readers is not the story Stephen Crane wrote. That story is the one printed here, as Henry Binder has recovered as fully as possible, from the author's final hand-written manuscript. In this new, "authentic" (The New York Times) text, material deleted by Crane's editor just prior to the first publication has been restored. Thus we have a version of Crane's work in which his vision is unmistakably present. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The intensity of its narrative and its naturalistic power earned Crane instant success, and led to his spending most of his brief remaining life war reporting. The other stories collected in this volume draw on this experience; 'The Open Boat' (1898) was inspired by his fifty hour struggle with waves after his ship was sunk during an expedition to Cuba; 'The Monster' (1899) is a bitterly ironic commentary on the ostracization of a doctor for harbouring the servant who was disfigured and lost his sanity rescuing his son. As a rare example of Crane working in a vein of American Gothic, it is particularly striking for its treatment of race and social injustice. 'The Blue Hotel' traces the events that lead to a murder at a bar in a small Nebraska town. This edition is the most generously annotated edition of Crane's work, exploring it from a fresh critical perspective and focusing on his place as an experimental writer, his modernist legacy and his social as well as literary revisionism.

Stephen Crane, geboren 1871 in New Jersey, begann bereits mit sechzehn Jahren als Reporter für eine kleine Agentur der New Yorker 'Tribune' zu schreiben. Damit begann die typische Laufbahn des Schriftstellers in Amerika, die Laufbahn eines Ambrose Bierce, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner: Über Journalismus und Sport zur Literatur. Seine Kurzgeschichten zählen zu den amerikanischen Klassikern des Genres.