The red Badge of Courage : : an Episode of the American Civil War
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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
war and the young man submitted by FordAlpha on August 17, 2019, 10:09pm This is a classic war novel, one of the first I read as a kid that conveyed the atrocious human cost of war. It unflinchingly portrays a young man's initiation into the bloody, violent life of a Union soldier, which is not the glamorous and heroic life that the young private envisioned. In fact, he flees in terror from his first battle, and is afterward tormented by guilt and longing to redeem himself for his cowardice. Nevertheless, he views his own wish to gain a "red badge of courage" with an ironic eye. Much of the novel focuses inward on the protagonist's thoughts and feelings rather than on outward plot, so it's not exactly a traditional action-packed war story but rather is about the psychological impact of war on the combatant.
PUBLISHED
London : Puffin, 1994.
Year Published: 1994
Description: 216 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0140367101 (pbk.)
SUBJECTS
Courage -- Fiction.
War -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.