HALE, Edward Everett (1822-1909)

The Man Without a Country and Its History

Boston: J. Stilman Smith & Company, 1897. Small 8vo. (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches). xx, 59pp.

Publisher's red cloth, titled in gilt on spine and upper cover.

Limited edition of the great writer's best-known work.

"The Man Without a Country" is a piece of short fiction, first published anonymously in "The Atlantic Monthly" in December 1863 to bolster support for the Union during the Civil War, that tells the story of a US Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan who is tried for treason as an accomplice to the former vice president Aaron Burr, a friend of his. Nolan renounces his country during the trial and is consequently sentenced to spend the rest of his life at sea aboard US Navy warships with no right to ever set foot on US soil again and orders that no one should ever mention the US to him again.

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