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Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War.
Além de seu trabalho pastoral, Hale era mais conhecido como escritor. A partir de 1859 escreveu vários contos e tornou-se um importante representante do realismo americano. Seu trabalho mais conhecido foi The Man Without a Country, escrito em 1863 em apoio aos Estados do Norte na Guerra Civil Americana.
Edward Everett Hale (born April 3, 1822, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died June 10, 1909, Roxbury, Mass.) was an American clergyman and author best remembered for his short story “The Man Without a Country.”
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Edward Everett Hale was born in Boston on April 3, 1822, and through a long line of distinguished ancestors he inherited the finest qualities of the New England character. Nathan Hale, the patriot who died regretting only that “he had but one life to give for his country,” was his great-uncle.
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The protagonist is a young US Army lieutenant, Philip Nolan, who develops a friendship with the visiting Aaron Burr. When Burr is tried for treason (that historically occurred in 1807), Nolan is tried as an accomplice. During his testimony, he bitterly renounces his nation and, with a foul oath, angrily shouts, "I wish I may never hear of the Unite...
Hale published "The Man Without a Country" in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863 to bolster support for the Union in the North. In this first publication, Hale's name does not appear at the beginning or end of the story, though it appears in the annual index at the end of that issue of the magazine. It was later collected in 1868 in the book The Man With...
A monument "in memory of" Nolan and bearing his self-written epitaph was placed in front of the Covington County Courthouse in Andalusia, Alabama, on July 4, 1975, by the Altrusa Club of Andalusia. The monument was placed as part of the Andalusia Bicentennial Committee's official activities commemorating the United States Bicentennial.
"The Man Without a Country" has been adapted for film several times, starting in 1917 with The Man Without a Country starring Florence La Badie, a 1918 film My Own United States, one in 1925, and another Man Without a Country starring John Litel and Gloria Holden and released by Warner Brothersin 1937. An opera of the story, also entitled The Man W...
Adams, John R., Edward Everett Hale (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977).Lawson, Melinda (2002). "'A Profound National Devotion': The Civil War Union Leagues and the Construction of a New National Patriotism". Civil War History. Volume 48, Issue 4. pp. 338–362.Hale, Edward Everett (1901). "The Real Philip Nolan". Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. 4.Wilson, Maurine T. (1932). Philip Nolan's Activities in Texas, Master's thesis, University of Texas at Austin.Wilson, Maurine T. and Jackson, Jack (1987). Philip Nolan and Texas: Expeditions to the Unknown Land, 1791–1801, Waco, TX: Texian Press, ISBN 978-0-87244-079-1.Text of short story on The AtlanticwebsiteThe Man Without a Country and Other Tales at Project GutenbergThe Man Without A Country public domain audiobook at LibriVoxEdward Everett Hale died in 1909. Yet every day in Boston, his spirit reaches out and lends a hand to those in need. New generations arise, but so far, there have always been people ready to heed his words and carry on his legacy.
More than one hundred fifty literary works of Unitarian cleric and writer Edward Everett Hale, younger brother of fellow American writer Lucretia Peabody Hale, include the story The Man without a Country.
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