The Man Without a Country, and Other Tales

A Sentence of Exile at Sea

Edward Everett Hale

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486369995
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A young officer curses his country at a court martial and is sentenced never to hear its name again, spending fifty years at sea under orders that no one mention America to him. Hale wrote it in 1863 as war propaganda and it became one of the most reprinted American stories ever written. This edition adds fifty-eight plates of paintings by Edvard Munch, Charles Fraser, Winthrop Chandler and others, dating from 1776 to 1918.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• The Man Without a Country. From the Ingham Papers.
• The Last of the Florida. From the Ingham Papers.
• Special Despatch. Letter from Captain Ingham, in Command of the Florida.
• Frederic Ingham. A Piece of Possible History.
• The South American Editor.
• The Old and the New, Face to Face. A Thumb-Nail Sketch.
• The Dot and Line Alphabet.
• The Last Voyage of the Resolute.
• Wintered in the Adjacent. HARBOR 1819-20.
• My Double, and How He Undid Me. One of the Ingham Papers.
• The Children of the Public.
• Chapter I. The Pork-Barrel.
• “The Children of the Public.” Chapter II.
• Chapter III. My Life to Its Crisis.
• The Crisis. Chapter IV.
• Chapter Last. Fausta’s Story.
• The Skeleton in the Closet.
• Christmas Waits in Boston. From the Ingham Papers.
• II.
• III.
• Notes
• About the Author