- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio Unabridged; Unabridged edition (Nov 10 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1590862961
- ISBN-13: 978-1590862964
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 10.9 x 3.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 172 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#2,384,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2 in Books > Audiobooks > Authors, A-Z > ( C ) > Crane, Stephen
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Book Description
Bored with farm life, and anxious for some excitement, Henry Fleming sets off to join the Union troops fighting the Civil War. An inexperienced fighter, he is anxious to get into battle to prove his patriotism and courage. He swaggers to keep up his spirits waiting for battle, but when suddenly thrust into the slaughter he is overcome with blind fear and runs from the field of battle. He is ashamed when he joins the wounded, for he has not earned their "red badge of courage" and becomes enraged when he witnesses the death of his terribly maimed friend. In a confused struggle with his own army's retreating soldiers, he is wounded but not by enemy gunfire. In an effort to redeem himself in his own eyes, he begins to fight frantically and, in the heat of battle, automatically seizes the regiment's colors in a daring charge that proves him truly courageous. The unnamed battle in the novel has been identified as that as Chancellorsville. While considered one of the most compelling stories of warfare of all time, Stephen Crane had never seen a battle when he wrote The Red Badge of Courage in 1895.
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The Bookcassette® format is a special recording technique developed as a means of condensing the full, unabridged audio text of a book to record it on fewer tapes. In order to listen to these tapes, you will need a cassette player with balance control to adjust left/right speaker output. Special adaptors to allow these tapes to be played on any cassette player are available through the publisher or some US retail electronics stores.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An underappreciated masterpiece,
By Shawn Crimmins (Columbia, MO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Red Badge of Courage (Audio Cassette)
This novel, though quite short, painted and incredibly dark and gripping picture of what the Civil War was like for those unfortunate souls who had to fight in it. At first the book seems somewhat crazy, but as you read on you find that it is only brought on by the madness of the war itself. A great work that I would highly recommend to anyone.
5.0 out of 5 stars
a patient, complex book,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Red Badge of Courage (Audio Cassette)
If only to counteract the overall poor rating of this book by students forced to read this book when too immature and impatient to comprehend it, I had to write this. This book is "confusing" because war is complex and both horrible and attractive to the main character, and I suppose it is "boring" because it does not give the pat answers to the problems of war that it raises, but rather requires thoughtful and patient reading. This is not to blame our schoolchildren--it is only to register for them that the fact that something is not immediately consumable by their infantile appetites does not entitle them to comment upon the worth of something that is valued in the world. In other word, be patient when those who are good and more experienced than you recommend something not immediately palatable--you may learn something.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Ok tapes,
By "specture100" (The F. L. A.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Red Badge of Courage (Audio Cassette)
I liked the book but these unabridged tapes where very boaring , the reader has a tiring voice , and the quality of the sound is poor. i think reading the book is a better alternative.
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