The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane · 1895

A young Union recruit flees his first Civil War battle, then wrestles with cowardice and the wish to prove himself. An impressionistic account of fear and courage under fire.

Books that mention The Red Badge of Courage (6)

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut: “He was given a book to read. The book was The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane. Derby had read it before.”
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: “my paperbacked copy of The Red Badge of Courage”
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: “In his English class he reads Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth, The Red Badge of Courage.”
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell: “"So many books, so little time, I know... but Crane remains unsurp[assed]" — on "the granddaddy of firsthand war accounts has to be Crane's The Red Badge of Courage."”
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn: “could not adequately be described except in a novel like Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage”
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth: “On Red Badge of Courage.”