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• Red Badge of Courage, The
  Red Badge of Courage, The

  noun

  a novel (1895) by Stephen Crane.
• The Red Badge of Courage
  The Red Badge of Courage

  (1895) A novel by the American author Stephen Crane, about a young man whose romantic notions of heroism in combat are shattered when he fights in the Civil War.

Red Badge of Courage, The

American  

noun

1. a novel (1895) by Stephen Crane.

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The Red Badge of Courage Cultural  

1. (1895) A novel by the American author Stephen Crane, about a young man whose romantic notions of heroism in combat are shattered when he fights in the Civil War.

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The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane, the author of The Red Badge of Courage, described chili as “pounded fire-brick from Hades,” which sounds like a surefire compliment if I’ve ever heard one.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2015

Foer's rendition of the Allied bombing of Dresden, in a flashback involving Oskar's grandfather Thomas, has the punishing, visceral vividness of the battle scenes from The Red Badge of Courage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed he did; in fact, he had reread The Red Badge of Courage within the last month.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the core of that achievement was The Red Badge of Courage, that wholly intuitive, almost mystical dream of war dredged up from his subconscious when he was only 22.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had read The Red Badge of Courage in school, and over the summer I read and enjoyed a history of the Civil War by Bruce Catton.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers