Literature Classics #6: Stephen Crane Traditional Cache
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Literature Classics #6: Stephen Crane
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Featuring "The Red Badge of Courage"
From a review by Alfred Kazin: "First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before 21-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 strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and with its masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernest Hemingway called the novel an American classic, and 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 ... in a masterpiece so unique that many believe modern American fiction began with Stephen Crane. "The Red Badge Of Courage" has long been considered the first great 'modern' novel of war by an American--the first novel of literary distinction to present war without heroics and this in a spirit of total irony and skepticism." --
The youth, the protagonist of the novel, at one point "regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage".
This cache was placed on Veterans' Day, 2007. Since the gardener ripped out the plant where the first cache container was hidden, the cache has now morphed into a magnetic micro bison container and it has moved to an item at the rear of the building. Please be sly. There's a bench right there so you can pretend to enjoy the "view". Please bring your own pen or pencil.
Note: When we placed the cache in its new spot, it was very hazy due to all the fires. If the coordinates don't work out, please use the hint and cache description.
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