The Man Without a Country

[Spinster]

This story came out mid-war in the Atlantic Monthly, a work of fiction, more or less, depending on who you ask.

It was still in the textbooks when I was a child. I remember it impressed the heck out of me.

We do not use the word Treason in our society so much today. Maybe we should.

http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=atla;cc=atla;rgn=full%20text;idno=atla0012-5;didno=atla0012-5;view=image;seq=0671;node=atla0012-5%3A1

[Blair]

Mrs. L,

I too remember this work in my formative school years.
An extremely compelling story. It was required reading in both Literature and History classes.
Thank you for posting it.

[sbl]

We do not use the word Treason in our society so much today. Maybe we should.

[/URL]

I do. You can ask me when.

[sbl]

There was a movie version of it with Cliff Robertson.

[tenfed1861]

Great find Mrs. Lawson.I plan on reading it as soon as things quiet down from exams.

[Pete K]

the story wasn't being taught anymore. Guess we backward provinical Western PA schools are anachronistic. Our HS still reads it in grade 9. I'm done now...

[Union Navy]

The author (Edward Everett Hale) showed considerable knowledge of how the Navy worked and dropped prominent historical Navy names, though he was never in the Navy himself. Fascinating reading.

[Rob Weaver]

"The Man Without a Country" was Hale's masterpiece. Nothing else he wrote (and he was quite prolific) comes anywhere as close. He did write an amusing story in which a group of Greek warriors singing Homer meet with a group of Hebrews sing David and compare them.

[Pvt. Sweetey]

I read "The Man Without A Country" in my 10th Grade literature book last year. Ah, the joys of homeschool ;)

[sbl]

Ha...you don't get "snow days."

[TB1861]

It was one of my Classics Illustrated comic book favorites, read the whole thing much later and the comic was pretty close. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493

[sbl]

Librivox Short Story Collection Vol. 017
# The Man Without A Country by Edward Everett Hale – 01:01:18
http://librivox.org/librivox-short-story-collection-vol-017/

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[mp3@128kbps - 58.8MB]
[ogg vorbis - 32.1M]
Read by: Rowdy Delaney

[Spinster]

Captain Moostashe (a man who in real life spends his time standing on a printing press), called to my attention that there was a much more readable copy on Google books--and thus had made its way into his Kindle reader.




http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15868/15868-h/15868-h.htm#toc_2 (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15868/15868-h/15868-h.htm#toc_2)





And, while I was figuring out that the forum would not accept the whole story in a single post, and deciding how much trouble it would be to break it up, both Tom and Scott came up with other options.

I may use the Librivox as a bedtime story tonight.........

[Pete K]

I just got a call from my HS faculty and they want to stop assigning the book in grade 9 after this year. They want me to do their lessons in grade 8 with the story. They used to tie it to the unit on WWI and the Espinoge Act 1917 now they suggest I tie it to JohnAdams' presidency and the Alien and Sedition Act or the War of 1812. Leave it to the old timer to know what to do...