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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
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The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the ar…
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- AuthorStephen Crane
- SourceProject Gutenberg #73
- Length46,171 words · 3h 05m of reading
- Chapters25
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-12
Contents
25 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01An Episode of the American Civil War
- 02Chapter I.
- 03Chapter II.
- 04Chapter III.
- 05Chapter IV.
- 06Chapter V.
- 07Chapter VI.
- 08Chapter VII.
- 09Chapter VIII.
- 10Chapter IX.
- 11Chapter X.
- 12Chapter XI.
- 13Chapter XII.
- 14Chapter XIII.
- 15Chapter XIV.
- 16Chapter XV.
- 17Chapter XVI.
- 18Chapter XVII.
- 19Chapter XVIII.
- 20Chapter XIX.
- 21Chapter XX.
- 22Chapter XXI.
- 23Chapter XXII.
- 24Chapter XXIII.
- 25Chapter XXIV.
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