The Red Badge of Courage is an American masterpiece-and yet the novel familiar to so many readers is not, in fact, the story Crane wrote.
Almost certainly, these deletions were made at the sugges.
Just prior to the first publication of The Red Badge of Courage in 1895, many key passages, phrases, words, and an entire chapter were deleted.
That story is the one printed here, as Henry Binder has recovered it, as fully as possible, from the author\'s final handwritten manuscript.
The Red Badge of Courage is an American masterpiece-and yet the novel familiar to so many readers is not, in fact, the story Crane wrote