 So unlike anything else is it that the temptation rises to deny that it is a book at all".Frederic, who would later befriend Crane when the latter relocated to England in 1897, juxtaposed the novel's treatment of war to those by Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola and Victor Hugo, all of whose works he believed to be "positively... cold and ineffectual" when compared to "The Red Badge of Courage".Crane himself later wrote about the novel