The Oxford Companion to American Literature | Hale, Edward Everett
Hale, Edward Everett( 1822–1909), nephew of Edward Everett and great-nephew of Nathan Hale, was a Boston Unitarian clergyman, philanthropist, and popular author. He wrote prolifically on many subjects, but is principally remembered for his tale The Man Without a Country (1865). His other books include If, Yes, and Perhaps (1868), miscellaneous tales ranging from the patriotism of the reprinted Man Without a Country and the whimsy of A Piece of Possible History to the satirical fantasy of My Double and How He Undid Me; Sybaris and Other Homes (1869), a Utopian satire of American society; Ten Times One Is Ten (1871), a novelette concerned with the ethical influence of a dead man's ghost on his friends; In His Name (1874), concerned with the 12th-century Waldenses; Philip Nolan's Friends (1877), a romantic account of the real Nolan; The Fortunes of Rachel (1884), dealing with an...
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