书名：The Red Badge of Courage 红色英勇勋章
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数890
作者：Stephen Crane
出版社名称：Bantam Classic
出版时间：2004
语种：英文
ISBN：9780553210118
商品尺寸：10.6 x0.9 x 17.4 cm
包装：简装
页数：134 （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。
推荐理由：
1.《红色英勇勋章》以一名普通士兵的口吻对美国南北战争进行了描述；
2.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；
3.本书故事情节简单，着重心理描写，语言流畅，通俗易懂；
4.此版本为Bantam Classic版本，附有Alfred Kazin所写序言及哲学博士Regina Domeraski的文本注释，有助于读者理解小说内容。
First published in 1895, America’s greatest novel of the Civil War was written before the twenty-one-year-old Stephen Crane had“smelled even the powder of a sham battle.” But this powerful psychological study of a young soldier’s struggle with the horrors, both within and without, that war unleashed strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and its masterful description of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by men under fire. Esteemed scholars such as Alfred Kazin have consideredThe Red Badge of Courage to be the first American novel of“literacy distinction to present war without heroics… in a spirit of total irony andskepticism,” and Earnest Hemingway called it an American classic. Crane’s genius is as much apparent in his sharp, colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episode of war so intense, so immediate, so real that the terror of battle becomes our own.

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。
The Red Badge of Courage is 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.

Introduction by Alfred Kazin
The Red Badge of Courage
A Note on the Text
Bibliography

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.