The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

by Stephen Crane · language: en

Vocabulary level: Upper-intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 6 · 3,063 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 — Fiction · Historical fiction · United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Fiction · Virginia — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Fiction

Words worth knowing: digger · blare · teamster · insolently · forceful · stolidly · drearily · wheeze

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1871-1900) An Episode of the American Civil War Contents

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.

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