The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
"The Man Without a Country" by Edward Everett Hale is a short story first published in 1863. A young American officer, charged with treason, rashly declares he never wants to hear about the United States again. The court grants his wish literally, condemning him to spend his remaining years aboard naval ships, forever exiled from his homeland and denied any news of his country. As decades pass at sea, his bitter renunciation
transforms into profound regret and desperate longing for the nation he cast away. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
| How to read | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493.html.images | 104 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493.epub3.images | 110 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493.epub.images | 110 kB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493.epub.noimages | 104 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493.kf8.images | 215 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493.kindle.images | 207 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16493.txt.utf-8 | 92 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16493/pg16493-h.zip | 109 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Man Without a Country |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Country |
| Credits | Produced by Kurt A. T. Bodling, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Sea stories |
| Subject | Soldiers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Stateless persons -- Fiction |
| Subject | Exiles -- Fiction |
| Subject | Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 16493 |
| Release Date | Aug 8, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Mar 8, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 328 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |