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4. Description : A quotfascinating introductionquot Martin Griffin NY Times OpinionatorIn Hales edition of quotThe Man Without a Countryquot he includes a fascinating introduction in which he explains the details of his original ideas for writing the bestseller and the story of its initial publication in The Atlantic It is this introduction along with the story itself that has been republished here for the interested readerIn beginning his introduction Hale writes quotThe publisher of this edition of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY asks me to give some account of the circumstances and incidents of its Publication I do this with a certain reluctance lest it should seem that I think they are more important than they are It is true however that a series of curious coincidences accompanied the history of the story Persons who are interested in the Curiosities of Literature then may read this prefacequotIncluded in his introduction are references to the quotreal Philip Nolanquot a Texas freebooter and Aaron Burrs Mississippi River intrigues and treason trial The real Philip Nolan was a horsetrader and freebooter in Natchez on the Mississippi River and the Spanish province of Tejas aka Texas who had contact with Zebulon Pike on his famous expedition into Spanish TerritoryquotThe Man Without a Countryquot is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale first published in The Atlantic in December It is the story of American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan who renounces his country during a trial for treason and is consequently sentenced to spend the rest of his days at sea without so much as a word of

5. news about the United States Though the story is set in the early th century it is an allegory about the upheaval of the American Civil War and was meant to promote the Union causeEdward Everett Hale was an American author historian and Unitarian minister Hale first came to notice as a writer in when he contributed the short story quotMy Double and How He Undid Mequot to the Atlantic Monthly He soon published other stories in the same periodical His best known work was quotThe Man Without a Countryquot published in the Atlantic in and intended to strengthen support for the Union cause in the North As in some of his other nonromantic 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 quotThe RagMan and the RagWomanquot and quotThe Skeleton in the Closetquot gave him a prominent position among shortstory writers of th century America His short story quotThe Brick Moonquot serialized in the Atlantic Monthly is the first known fictional description of an artificial satellite It was possibly an influence on the novel The Begums Fortune by Jules Verne He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Other works by Hale include Illustrious Americans The Life of Christopher Columbus Boys heroes

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