num_pages: 256
description: Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time -- so groundbreaking that critics consider it to be the first work of modern American fiction. Although Crane never witnessed warfare, The Red Badge of Courage is a realistic and terrifying account of the Civil War and the fear that a young soldier must face on the battlefield as well as within himself.
language: English
title: The Red Badge of Courage
titlecomplete: The Red Badge of Courage
characters: Henry Fleming
genres: Classics, American, Historical, Civil War, Young Adult, War, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 102439
places: Chancellorsville, Virginia, The United States of America
publisher: Aladdin