The Man Without A Country And Other Tales


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Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon published other stories in the same periodical. His best known work was "The Man Without a Country", published in the Atlantic in 1863 and intended to strengthen support in the Civil War for the Union cause in the North. Though the story is set in the early 19th century, it is an allegory about the upheaval of the American Civil War. As in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a minute realism which led his readers to suppose the narrative a record of fact. These two stories and such others as "The Skeleton in the Closet", gave him a prominent position among short-story writers of 19th century America. Each story in this collection has an introduction. (Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales)

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01 The Man Without A Country Part 1 38:00 Read by David Wales
02 The Man Without A Country Part 2 40:00 Read by David Wales
03 The Last Of The Florida 18:51 Read by David Wales
04 A Piece Of Possible History 34:49 Read by David Wales
05 The South American Editor 33:57 Read by David Wales
06 The Old And The New, Face To Face 28:04 Read by David Wales
07 A Dot And Line Alphabet 24:20 Read by David Wales
08 The Last Voyage Of The Resolute Part 1 35:06 Read by David Wales
09 The Last Voyage Of The Resolute Part 2 36:18 Read by David Wales
10 My Double, And How He Undid Me Part 1 24:09 Read by David Wales
11 My Double, And How He Undid Me Part 2 26:23 Read by David Wales
12 The Children Of The Public, Introduction and Chapter 1: The Pork-Barrel 8:45 Read by David Wales
13 The Children Of The Public, Chapter 2: Where Is The Barrel?; Chapter 3 My Life To Its Crisis 13:50 Read by David Wales
14 The Children Of The Public, Chapter 34: The Crisis Part 1 39:28 Read by David Wales
15 The Children Of The Public, Chapter 4: The Crisis Part 2 31:46 Read by David Wales
16 The Children Of The Public, Chapter 5: Fausta's Story 6:03 Read by David Wales
17 The Skeleton In The Closet 29:21 Read by David Wales
18 Christmas Waits In Boston Part 1 12:43 Read by David Wales
19 Christmas Waits In Boston Part 2 15:02 Read by David Wales
20 Christmas Waits In Boston Part 3 16:58 Read by David Wales