The Red Badge Of Courage
(Stephen Crane)
Stephen Crane's life was very interesting and intense. He was a nineteenth-century dandy who worked as a war correspondent for several New York dailies, serving in the Spanish-American war, the Greco-Turkish war, etc. His reputation as a desperado is legendary, as when he climbed a mountain, unarmed and defenseless,and stood there in order to breath the open air that did so well to his lungs, while bullets flew past him fired by both sides.During his stay in London before the war he held wild parties in which other legendary writers, such as Joseph Conrad and Henry James, partook, also fueled his own legend. However, this novel about the American Civil War is somewhat boring. Nothing this former war reporter tells can move me. Also a bildungsroman, the upshot is a brief but tiresome reading experience.
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