Edward Everett Hale
Author
Publisher
Roberts Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome.
The first story has never before been published.
It is but fair to say that I have not drawn on imagination for Laura's night duty, alone upon her island. This is simply the account of what a brave New-England woman did, under like circumstances,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
1915.
Language
English
Description
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."