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Ready Reference Treatise: The Red Badge of Courage
Ready Reference Treatise: The Red Badge of Courage
Ready Reference Treatise: The Red Badge of Courage
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But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

I would strongly advise all the students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see that the same story, after reading this treatise, will begin to give many new meanings to you.

All the best.

Raja Sharma

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRaja Sharma
Release dateJun 23, 2012
ISBN9781476270906
Ready Reference Treatise: The Red Badge of Courage
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Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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    Ready Reference Treatise - Raja Sharma

    Ready Reference Treatise: The Red Badge of Courage

    Raja Sharma

    Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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    Chapter 1: Introduction

    Stephen Crane is highly regarded as a writer of novels and stories in the English speaking world, especially in United Kingdom. He was born in the year 1871, in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States of America.

    Crane was the fourteenth child of a very religious family. His parents were highly devoted Methodists. Right from his childhood, Stephen Crane was rebellious by nature and instead of going the religious way; he took to preparing for a career as a professional baseball player.

    Crane went to Lafayette College and Syracuse University but he did not complete his education there. He spent a brief period there. He became a full time writer. Since he wanted to decorate his works with authentic experiences, he gave lengthy descriptions of the situations in his novels.

    When he wanted to write his first book, Maggie, he wanted to experience what real poverty is. Since Maggie was a girl of the streets, he wanted to live that life. He started living in the Bowery slum of New York City. Similarly, his short story The Open Boat was based on his own experience. He had had the experience of a castaway from a shipwreck. He infused every real emotion in his stories.

    The Red Badge of Courage is considered to be Crane’s most enduring work. The book was published in the year 1895. When it was first published, it was not well received in the United States of America, but it was a grand success in the United Kingdom. When the English critics from England began to pay serious attention to The Red Badge of Courage, many Americans got inspired to view the novel with renewed enthusiasm.

    When the American readers and critics found the book highly admirable, Crane immediately became an international celebrity. People from all over the world began to acknowledge that Crane was the writer with literary genius and skills of a great writer.

    His detailed descriptions of war and battle were so realistic that many newspapers approached him and he was given many assignments as a foreign correspondent for newspapers. He visited Greece, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Besides writing fiction, Crane wrote poems and he published volumes of poetry. His landmark book is titled The Open Boat which was published in 1897. After two years of the publication of The Open Boat, Crane and his lover, who

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