The Red Badge of Courage with Selected Stories (International Collectors Library)

306 pp. Navy blue leatherette boards, gilt titles and decorations, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, which inspired the 1951 MGM film of the same name, together with several other short works. Includes: The Red Badge of Courage; The Blue Hotel; The Open Boat; A Man and Some Others; One Dash - Horses; Flanagan; The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky; The Wise Men; Death and the Child; The Five White Mice; The Upturned Face. "Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers. Terrified, Henry deserts his comrades. Upon returning to his regiment, he struggles with his shame as he tries to redeem himself and prove his courage."