Edward Everett Hale

In Hales' 1897 edition of "The Man Without a Country" he includes a fascinating introduction in which he explains the details of his original ideas for writing the bestseller and the story of its initial publication in The Atlantic. It is this introduction along with the story itself that has been republished here for the interested reader. In beginning his introduction Hale writes: "The publisher of this edition of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY asks...

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"The Man without a Country" is a short story by American writer, Edward Everett Hale, first published during the height of the Civil War during 1863 by the leading American literary magazine of the nineteenth century, The Atlantic. It is the story of an American Army Lieutenant Philip Nolan, who gets entangled with Aaron Burr in 1807, and renounces his country during his trial for treason, saying he never wanted to hear about the United States again....

Published in 1899, this charming autobiography takes readers back to a time when Boston, the largest city in New England, was still just a typical town of the region. While Hale claims here, "I am certainly not writing my autobiography," he does give a detailed account of being a boy during "the simplicity and ease of a phase of New England life, which has now wholly passed away."