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Book The Man Without a Country and Other Tales

Download or read book The Man Without a Country and Other Tales written by Edward Everett Hale and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by Civil War-era author Hale, including a short fantasy entitled "My Double and How He Undid Me."

Book The Man Without a Country

Download or read book The Man Without a Country written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Man Without a Country

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Everett Hale
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-03-26
  • ISBN : 9783744725095
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Man Without a Country written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Without A Country - And Other Tales is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Book The Brick Moon  and Other Stories

Download or read book The Brick Moon and Other Stories written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Double   how He Undid Me

Download or read book My Double how He Undid Me written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philip Nolan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Patrick Pfarrer
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 2016-04-15
  • ISBN : 1591146658
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Philip Nolan written by Charles Patrick Pfarrer and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country is Chuck Pfarrer's captivating adaptation of Edward Everett Hale's American classic “The Man Without a Country,” first published in The Atlantic Monthly more than a century ago. Masterfully blending history and fiction, Pfarrer tells the story of a young artillery officer, Philip Nolan, who becomes embroiled in Aaron Burr's 1807 conspiracy to invade the territories of the Louisiana Purchase. Insinuating his scheme has official approval, Burr convinces Nolan to carry a coded message into the Orleans Territory. Nolan has no knowledge of the former vice president's intended treason-and Burr has no idea that Thomas Jefferson has discovered his scheme. Soon Philip Nolan is in military custody with Burr, charged an accessory to the plot. The nation holds its breath as Burr is tried for attempting to tear apart the Union. The charges against Burr seem ironclad, but his lawyers are clever, and Burr walks free. An embarrassed prosecution looks for a scapegoat, and expands the charges against Nolan to include desertion and sedition. Learning that his own court martial will proceed, despite Burr's acquittal, Nolan denounces his accusers, damns his country, and tells the court he wishes never again to hear the words “United States” as long as he lives. The judges return with an ominous verdict: the prisoner's wish will be granted. Nolan is sentenced to permanent exile aboard a series of U.S. warships, never again to hear news from or speak of his country. Decades pass. Shuttled from ocean to ocean, Nolan realizes he is a stateless person, estranged from his keepers and forgotten by his country. Eventually passed aboard an American frigate in the Mediterranean, Nolan comes into the custody of a newly commissioned lieutenant, Frank Curran. When Barbary pirates capture an American whaleship, the pair is drawn into a web of international deceit and mortal danger. As a rescue mission is launched, Nolan teaches the young officer a lesson about duty, loyalty, and the meaning of patriotism. Equal parts adventure, naval history, and morality tale, Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country is more than frigate duels and small boat actions. Intricately plotted and beautifully crafted, the novel is a poignant and closely observed examination of the human condition.

Book The Man Without a Country

Download or read book The Man Without a Country written by Edward Everett Hale and published by EDCON Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shortened adaptation of the story of Philip Nolan, who was banished from the United States and lived to regret the consequences. Includes word definitions and multiple choice questions.

Book The Ingham Papers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Everett Hale
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1869
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Ingham Papers written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christmas Eve and Christmas Day  Ten Christmas stories

Download or read book Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories written by Edward Everett Hale and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of ten original Christmas stories, some of which have been published before. The author has also added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. Titles featured include 'Daily Bread', 'Love is the Whole', and 'The Survivor's Story'.

Book How to Do it

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Everett Hale
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2022-10-30
  • ISBN : 3368127594
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book How to Do it written by Edward Everett Hale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Book If  Yes  and Perhaps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Everett Hale
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781020834721
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book If Yes and Perhaps written by Edward Everett Hale and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, Edward Everett Hale takes readers on a journey through various historical periods, exploring themes such as love, trust, and justice. From 16th century Europe to the American Civil War, the tales in If Yes and Perhaps are both entertaining and thought-provoking. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Man Without a Country

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Hale
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-09-24
  • ISBN : 9781539055570
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book The Man Without a Country written by Edward Hale and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He cried out, in a fit of frenzy, 'Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again" This nation never wishes to make war. Our whole policy is a policy of peace, and peace is the protection of the Christian civilization to which we are pledged. It is always desirable to teach young men and young women, and old men and old women, and all sorts of people, to understand what the country is. It is a Being. The LORD, God of nations, has called it into existence, and has placed it here with certain duties in defence of the civilization of the world. It was the intention of this parable, which describes the life of one man who tried to separate himself from his country, to show how terrible was his mistake. It does not need now that a man should curse the United States, as Philip Nolan did, or that he should say he hopes he may never hear her name again, to make it desirable for him to consider the lessons which are involved in the parable of his life. Any man is "without a country who, by his sneers, or by looking backward, or by revealing his country's secrets to her enemy, checks for one hour the movements which lead to peace among the nations of the world, or weakens the arm of the nation in her determination to secure justice between man and man, and in general to secure the larger life of her people." He has not damned the United States in a spoken oath.

Book The Oath

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey Toobin
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2013-06-04
  • ISBN : 0307390713
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Oath written by Jeffrey Toobin and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction From the moment Chief Justice Roberts botched Barack Obama's oath of office, the relationship between the Court and the White House has been a fraught one. Grappling with issues as diverse as campaign finance, abortion, and the right to bear arms, the Roberts court has put itself squarely at the center of American political life. Jeffrey Toobin brilliantly portrays key personalities and cases and shows how the President was fatally slow to realize the importance of the judicial branch to his agenda. Combining incisive legal analysis with riveting insider details, The Oath is an essential guide to understanding the Supreme Court of our interesting times.

Book 1876

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gore Vidal
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2018-08-22
  • ISBN : 0525565779
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book 1876 written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year. ------Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire. ------"A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. "Vidal can take history and make it powerful and astonishing." Time concurred: "Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past." ------With a new Introduction by the author.

Book Civic Myths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brook Thomas
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-09-01
  • ISBN : 1469606798
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Civic Myths written by Brook Thomas and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Brook Thomas argues for revitalizing the role of literature in civic education. Thomas defines civic myths as compelling stories about national origin, membership, and values that are generated by conflicts within the concept of citizenship itself. Selected works of literature, he claims, work on these myths by challenging their terms at the same time that they work with them by relying on the power of narrative to produce compelling new stories. Civic Myths consists of four case studies: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and "the good citizen"; Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country" and "the patriotic citizen"; Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and "the independent citizen"; and Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and "the immigrant citizen." Thomas also provides analysis of the civic mythology surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the case of Ex parte Milligan. Engaging current debates about civil society, civil liberties, civil rights, and immigration, Thomas draws on the complexities of law and literature to probe the complexities of U.S. citizenship.

Book The Light in the Forest

Download or read book The Light in the Forest written by Conrad Richter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.

Book Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States

Download or read book Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community. The benefits of improving and regulating the forensic science disciplines are clear: assisting law enforcement officials, enhancing homeland security, and reducing the risk of wrongful conviction and exoneration. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States gives a full account of what is needed to advance the forensic science disciplines, including upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.