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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Example Sentences

In “The Red Badge of Courage,” the novel that made Crane famous, at the age of twenty-three, the nonhero Henry Fleming desperately wants to be perceived as brave, even though he deserts in a moment of cowardice, and doesn’t really seem to believe in bravery except as a perception.

From The New Yorker

Reviewing The Yellow Birds for the Guardian, John Burnside wrote that: "While few will have expected the war in Iraq to bring forth a novel that can stand beside All Quiet on the Western Front or The Red Badge of Courage, The Yellow Birds does just that, for our time, as those books did for theirs."

From The Guardian