Pub Date: February 1, 2005
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2004107439
Lexile Code: 0900
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 14
Physical Info: 0.71" H x 7.34" L x 5.60" W ( 0.39 lbs) 256 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Classics | Historical | United States General | War and Military
Series: Aladdin Classics
Description: Although he never witnessed warfare before writing this story, Stephen Crane penned this realistic and terrifying account of the Civil War, describing the fear that a young soldier must face on the battlefield as well as within himself. Young Adult.
Brief description: Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was born in New Jersey and was the last of fourteen children. While The Red Badge of Courage is considered Crane's masterpiece, he is also known for another brilliant yet grim work of fiction, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (1893), as well as his poetry and journalism. Crane moved to Europe in 1897 and died in Germany at the age of twenty-nine from tuberculosis.