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The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Jan. 9, 2016)
Excerpt from Chapter 1: “The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills. Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a shirt. He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike. He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the orderlies at division headquarters. He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold.”
ISBN
1523315741 / 9781523315741
Pages
152
Weight
10.1 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.4 in.

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