Red Badge of Courage, The

noun

1. a novel (1895) by Stephen Crane.

The Red Badge of Courage

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.

Example Sentences

The short, remarkable life of the author of “The Red Badge of Courage” — he achieved international celebrity from his writing, survived a shipwreck, risked his life while filing dispatches from the Spanish-American War, faced a scandal that exiled him from New York, and died at 28 of tuberculosis — is elegantly told by an acclaimed novelist.

From Seattle Times

Dr. Glasser dedicated the book to Stephen Crane, whose “The Red Badge of Courage” vividly portrays the Civil War battlegrounds.

From Washington Post

He dedicated the book to Stephen Crane, the author of the novel “The Red Badge of Courage,” which vividly described the bloody battlegrounds of the Civil War.

From New York Times

Ada Ferrer received the history prize for “Cuba: An American History,” a sweeping chronicle of the island nation and its complex relationship to the United States, and Auster, better known for his cerebral novels, took home the biography award for “Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane,” about the short-lived American author of “The Red Badge of Courage.”

From Los Angeles Times

His most famous work, 1895’s “The Red Badge of Courage,” was a Civil War novel produced decades after the fighting ended by a writer who’d never done military service.

From Los Angeles Times