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    The Man Without a Country
    The Man Without a Country
    The Man Without a Country
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    The Man Without a Country

    By Edward Everett Hale

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateOct 1, 1968

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    • 3/5
      I saw this on a list of"other" books to read this summer and found it on Gutenberg. I remembered the Cliff Robertson movie (TV, 1973), and I'm sure I read it back then, but it was nice to reread. Nice to read a short story after Game of Thrones. Nice to read good writing after Game of Thrones.

      A thinker that really needed to be fleshed out.
    • 5/5
      This was a short read, but honestly well worth relating to today. How many people are lost in the system to this day? How many people, when handed down what seemed a simple sentence, discovers that the sentence itself takes away more than it was supposed to take? There are repercussions for everything. This was a story that took place during the War of 1812. A number of things were misunderstood by the prisoner, by the courts, and by the general population of that era. After 50 years, these things were never corrected. Just like the things happening today.
    • 5/5
      This is the deeply moving story of naval lieutenant Phillip Nolan, a young man who lived to regret a rash and passionately spoken oath. For when Nolan, who had fallen under the spell of the treasonous conspirator Aaron Burr, was court-martialed for his part in Burr's plot, he cursed the United States and avowed that he wished he might never hear of it again. His judges took him at his word, and for the next fifty years, until his death, he was never allowed to set foot on American soil, nor to see nor hear a single word of news about her and her affairs.The author, Edward Everett Hale, paints a heart-rending portrait of a man who, having abjured his country, comes to regret his rash oath and longs for a home to call his own. Everett Shinn's beautifully executed illustrations grace every page of this edition, with scenes from the book as well as simple motifs of ship and sea.
    • 4/5
      Edward Everett Hale has earned a place in American fiction (for that is what this story is) with this woeful tale of a man who made a slip of tongue in front of the wrong person and was condemned to sail on a ship where no one could ever refer or allow him to any way sense the existence of the United States. Should the one-world concept triumph (as I'm sure it will), this may diminish the epathetic effectiveness of the book.

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    The Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Man Without a Country, by Edward E. Hale

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    Title: The Man Without a Country

    Author: Edward E. Hale

    Release Date: August 8, 2005 [EBook #16493]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY ***

    Produced by Kurt A. T. Bodling, Pennsylvania, USA

    [Frontispiece caption:] "He cried out, in a fit of frenzy, 'Damn the

    United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!'"

    The Man Without A Country

    by

    Edward E. Hale

    Author of In His Name, Ten Times One, How to Live, etc.

    Boston

    Little, Brown, and Company

    Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,

    By TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

    in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

    Massachusetts.

    Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865,

    BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

    in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

    Massachusetts.

    Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865,

    BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

    in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

    Massachusetts.

    Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868,

    BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

    in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

    Massachusetts.

    Entered according to Act of Congress, in the your 1888, BY J. STILMAN SMITH & COMPANY in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

    Copyright, 1891, 1897, 1900, 1904,

    BY EDWARD E. HALE.

    Copyright, 1898, 1905,

    BY LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY.

    All rights reserved.

    PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    Introduction

    Love of country is a sentiment so universal that it is only on such rare occasions as called this book into being that there is any need of discussing it or justifying it. There is a perfectly absurd statement by Charles Kingsley, in the preface to one of his books, written fifty years ago, in which he says that, while there can be loyalty to a king or a queen, there cannot be loyalty to one's country.

    This story of Philip Nolan was written in the darkest period of the Civil War, to show what love of country is. There were persons then who thought that if their advice had been taken there need have been no Civil War. There were persons whose every-day pursuits were greatly deranged by the Civil War. It proved that the lesson was a lesson gladly received. I have had letters from seamen who read it as they were lying in our blockade squadrons off the mouths of Southern harbors. I have had letters from men who read it soon after the Vicksburg campaign. And in other ways I have had many illustrations of its having been of use in what I have a right to call the darkest period of the Republic.

    To-day we are not in the darkest period of the Republic.

    This nation never wishes to make war. Our whole policy is a policy of peace, and peace is the protection of the Christian civilization to which we are pledged. It is always desirable to teach young men and young women, and old men and old women, and all sorts of people, to understand what the country is. It is a Being. The LORD, God of nations, has called it into existence, and has placed it here with certain duties in defence of the civilization of the world.

    It was the intention of this parable, which describes the life of one man who tried to separate himself from his country, to show how terrible was his mistake.

    It does not need now that a man should curse the United States, as Philip Nolan did, or that he should say he hopes he may never hear her name again, to make it desirable for him to consider the lessons which are involved in the parable of his life. Any man is without a country who, by his sneers, or by looking backward, or by revealing his country's secrets to her enemy, checks for one hour the movements which lead to peace among the nations of the world, or weakens the arm of the nation in her determination to secure justice between man and man, and in general to secure the larger life of her people. He has not damned the United States in a spoken oath.

    All the same he is a dastard child.

    There is a definite, visible Progress in the affairs of this world. Jesus Christ at the end of his life prayed to God that all men might become One, As thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.

    The

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