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

By Stephen Crane

2019-06-05 19:32:20

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 ca ... Read more
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. Less

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File size117.074 KB
Print pages304
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2019-06-10
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679602965
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as...

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