{"product_id":"2940169440034","title":"The Red Badge of Courage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Red Badge of Courage\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create \"a psychological portrayal of fear.\" Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks \"that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself.\" And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own \"red badge\" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. \"The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields,\" Ford Madox Ford remarked later, \"was gone forever.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123033522416,"sku":"2940169440034","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169440034_p0.jpg?v=1763682815","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169440034","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}