The Man Without a Country (Annotated)

Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country is a compact yet powerful work of patriotic fiction, framed as the naval reminiscence of Philip Nolan, an American officer who rashly renounces his nation and is condemned never again to hear its name. Written in a sober, documentary style that lends invented events the authority of history, the tale belongs to the Civil War era's literature of natio...