书名：The Red Badge of Courageand Four Stories红色英勇勋章及四个故事
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数890L
作者：Stephen Crane斯蒂芬•克莱恩
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2011
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531803
商品尺寸：10.6x1.9x 17.4cm
包装：简装
页数：272 （以实物为准）

The Red Badge of Courage《红色英勇勋章》是美国作家斯蒂芬•克莱恩的代表作，以美国南北战争为背景，讲述了一个农妇的独生子亨利·弗莱明由于对战争的奇妙幻想，渴望过军旅生活，而不顾母亲的劝阻毅然参加了北方军的故事。小说从一个士兵的角度去描写战争，突出战斗环境中个人的具体感受，把士兵们的恐惧和悲伤，懦弱和勇敢描绘得淋漓尽致。这部战争文学经典着力渲染主人公肉体与心灵的主观感受及其心灵善恶搏斗的过程，被誉为首部现代战争作品。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，包含The Red Badge of Courage《红色英勇勋章》以及其他四个故事：The Open Boat《海上扁舟》、The Blue Hotel《蓝色旅馆》、The Upturned Face《仰着的脸庞》和The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky《新娘来到黄天镇》。故事内容完整无删减，书本轻巧便携，由James Dickey作序，Jeffrey Meyers后记，R.W. Stallman注释，有助于读者理解小说内容。

First published in 1895, this small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. The novel is told through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young soldier caught up in an unnamed Civil War battle who is motivated not by the unselfish heroism of conventional war stories, but by fear, cowardice, and finally, egotism. However, in his struggle to find reality amid the nightmarish chaos of war, the young soldier also discovers courage, humility, and perhaps, the beginnings of wisdom.
Although Crane had never been in battle before writingThe Red Badge of Courage, the book was widely praised by experienced soldiers for its uncanny re-creation of the sights, sounds, and sense of actual combat. Its publication brought Crane immediate international fame and established him as a major author. A century later, the book ranks as a landmark of American fiction.

主人公亨利•弗莱明是一个农妇的独子，满怀浪漫的英雄主义观念，渴望军队的传奇生活，不顾母亲的劝阻，参加了北方军（即联盟军）。在战斗中，亨利一方面渴望荣誉，另一方面又惧怕死亡。战场上的炮声使他勇敢地投入战斗，但遭到敌人突然袭击时，他又临阵脱逃。后来亨利被一位战友误伤了头部，却被误认为是在战斗中光荣负伤，战友们都敬佩他轻伤不下火线的勇敢精神。亨利在万分羞愧中历经种种思想斗争，克服了对战争的恐惧，在炮火的洗礼中成长为一名英勇的战士。
Here is Stephen Crane’s masterpiece,The Red Badge of Courage, together with four of his most famous short stories. Outstanding in their portrayal of violent emotion and quiet tension, these texts led the way for great American writers such as Ernest Hemingway.
The Red Badge of Courageis a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a “red badge of courage,” to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer.

Stephen Crane斯蒂芬•克莱恩（1871-1900），美国知名小说家、诗人、记者。克莱恩一生短暂，但经历丰富，在墨西哥报界工作过，在希腊和古巴当过战地记者，在英国度过一段热热闹闹的乡村生活，后来因肺病死于德国。克莱恩被现代评论家公认为他那个年代中颇具有革新精神的小说家之一。代表作为《红色英勇勋章》，其他主要作品还有小说《街头女郎玛吉》，诗集《黑骑者》《战争是仁慈的》等。
Stephen Crane(November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.
The ninth surviving child of Protestant Methodist parents, Crane began writing at the age of four and had published several articles by the age of 16. Having little interest in university studies, he left college in 1891 to work as a reporter and writer. Crane’s first novel was the 1893Bowery tale Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, generally considered by critics to be the first work of American literary Naturalism. He won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novelThe Red Badge of Courage, which he wrote without having any battle experience.
In 1896, Crane endured a highly publicized scandal after appearing as a witness in the trial of a suspected prostitute, an acquaintance named Dora Clark. Late that year he accepted an offer to travel to Cuba as a war correspondent. As he waited in Jacksonville, Florida, for passage, he met Cora Taylor, with whom he began a lasting relationship. En route to Cuba, Crane’s vessel the SS Commodore, sank off the coast of Florida, leaving him and others adrift for 30 hours in a dinghy. Crane described the ordeal inThe Open Boat. During the final years of his life, he covered conflicts in Greece (accompanied by Cora, recognized as the first woman war correspondent) and later lived in England with her. He was befriended by writers such as Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells. Plagued by financial difficulties and ill health, Crane died of tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium in Germany at the age of 28.

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 army’s feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp- fires set in the low brows of distant hills.
Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a shirt. He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike. He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the order- lies at division headquarters. He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold.
“We’re goin’ t’ move t’ morrah—sure,” he said pompously to a group in the company street. “We’re goin’ ‘way up the river, cut across, an’ come around in behint ‘em.”
To his attentive audience he drew a loud and elaborate plan of a very brilliant campaign. When he had finished, the blue-clothed men scattered into small arguing groups between the rows of squat brown huts. A negro teamster who had been dancing upon a cracker box with the hilarious encouragement of two-score soldiers was deserted. He sat mournfully down. Smoke drifted lazily from a multitude of quaint chimneys.