The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of
fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle.
The other stories collected in this volume draw on Crane's subsequent experience of war
reporting and include `The Open Boat `The Monster' and `The Blue Hotel'. This edition is the
most generously annotated available of Crane's work focusing on his place as an experimental
writer his modernist legacy and his social as well as literary revisionism.
