Red Badge of Courage Notes (Cliffs notes) (Paperback)

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Crane wrote the first draft of this book in only ten days. As the story of a young boy's first battle, not only in war but with his own fear, pride, and cowardice, it still remains as one of the best fictions about the American Civil War. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 82 pages
• Publisher: Cliffs Notes (November 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822011204
• ISBN-13: 978-0822011200
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,659,455 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book! The message is extremly important., October 24, 1999

By A Customer

This book is one that i picked to read for 11th grade english. I too, picked it because it was short, however it was the BEST book i have ever had to read. Henry Fleming struggles with the same day to day struggles that we teenagers do, confusion, happiness, the feeling that we are right, the feelign we are wrong. Life is a rollercoaster when you are young and Henry has to deal with this and being invovled in the civil war. Some people may be looking for an easy way out, and will say this book was boring and hard to understand,(its not, esp. if your in an ap class or have any brains at all) but it is those people who will never get the full meaning of this book. I recomend it to any student and any person.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Summarization of Civil war classic novel, October 6, 1998

By	"addicted2ebay" (NYC, NY) - See all my reviews

This review book was adequate. It did it's job. It's sole purpose is to summarize Crane's novel about the Civil war. In reading more about Crane, we learn that he was an American novelist and poet who was known for.... "his pessimistic and often brutal portrayals of the human condition, but his stark realism is relieved by charm and sympathetic understanding of character"......... Although this review book does summarize each chapter (I read each chapter of the review book before I subsequently read each chapter of the book, so I knew what to expect) it cannot do justice NOR take the place of reading the actual words of Crane. His book is magnificent and his skill at manipulating words is extraordinary. I read and reread savoring the descriptiveness of each sentence. His genius is that he had never experienced military service or the ordeals of combat which he so wonderfully describes here. His experience as a correspondent during the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 are perhaps the basis for his knowledge about the terrors which face a soldier. Please read each and every sentence and study them intently. They are so perfect in their construction that I could ably picture all the scenes he described. I am curious now to view a film (which I heard was made of this book). This review book is good, but don't avoid reading the actual book itself, because you will have missed a great experience. Kathryn in New York City

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Red Badge of Courage Review, June 4, 2000

By	Danielle Shrager (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Red Badge of Courage (Cliffs Notes) (Paperback)

These Cliff Notes on The Red Badge of Courage were a great help on a project I had to do for school. I didn't have much time and the project was worth a lot of points. With this at hand, I finished the report with all the qualifications, topics and details I needed. If you're in a hurry to read this book or you don't understand it well, get this book.