Stephen Crane's novel, "The Red Badge of Courage," depicts the psychological journey of a young Union soldier during the American Civil War. It is notable for its vivid realism and exploration of fear and courage in battle, influencing later war literature.
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Stephen Crane — The Red Badge of Courage in Classic American Novels
Held in the Classic American Novels chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- James Fenimore Cooper — The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne — The Scarlet Letter (1850)
- Herman Melville — Moby Dick (1851)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe — Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- Louisa May Alcott — Little Women (1868)
- Mark Twain — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
- Henry James — The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
- Mark Twain — Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- Henry James — The Turn of the Screw (1898)
- Kate Chopin — The Awakening (1899)
- Frank Norris — McTeague (1899)
- Theodore Dreiser — Sister Carrie (1900)
- Owen Wister — The Virginian (1902)
- Jack London — The Call of the Wild (1903)
- Edith Wharton — The House of Mirth (1905)
- Upton Sinclair — The Jungle (1906)
- Jack London — White Fang (1906)
- Edith Wharton — Ethan Frome (1911)
- Zane Grey — Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)
- Willa Cather — O Pioneers! (1913)
- Willa Cather — My Ántonia (1918)
- Sherwood Anderson — Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
- Sinclair Lewis — Main Street (1920)
- Edith Wharton — The Age of Innocence (1920)
- Sinclair Lewis — Babbitt (1922)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby (1925)
- John Dos Passos — Manhattan Transfer (1925)
- Ernest Hemingway — The Sun Also Rises (1926)
- Willa Cather — Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
- Ernest Hemingway — A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- William Faulkner — The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- William Faulkner — As I Lay Dying (1929)
- John Steinbeck — Cup of Gold (1929)