Download or read book The Red Badge of Courage written by Stephen Crane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The John Harvard Library presents the first American edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, one of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War - and the first account to gain wide popularity. Paul Sorrentino introduces Red Badge to a new generation of readers for a fuller appreciation of the novel and its effects.