The Man Without A Country And Other Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Man Without A Country And Other Tales, credited to Edward Everett Hale, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Man Without a Country and Other Tales, by Edward Everett Hale. Read by David Wales. Edward Everett Hale (1822 – 1909) was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon published other stories in the same periodical. His best known work was "The Man Without a Country", published in the Atlantic in 1863 and intended to strengthen support in the Civil War for the Union cause in the North. Though the story is set in the early 19th century, it is an allegory about the upheaval of the American Civil War. As in some of his other non-romantic 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 "The Skeleton in the Closet", gave him a prominent position among short-story writers of 19th century America. Each story in this collection has an introduction. (Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Man Without A Country And Other Tales
• Author credits: Edward Everett Hale
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 8:33:53

Catalogue topics

• Christmas
• patriotism
• sea stories
• humor
• American Civil War
• nineteenth century

Track guide

1. 01 The Man Without A Country Part 1 — 38:00
2. 02 The Man Without A Country Part 2 — 40:00
3. 03 The Last Of The Florida — 18:51
4. 04 A Piece Of Possible History — 34:50
5. 05 The South American Editor — 33:57
6. 06 The Old And The New, Face To Face — 28:04
7. 07 A Dot And Line Alphabet — 24:20
8. 08 The Last Voyage Of The Resolute Part 1 — 35:06
9. 09 The Last Voyage Of The Resolute Part 2 — 36:18
10. 10 My Double, And How He Undid Me Part 1 — 24:09
11. 11 My Double, And How He Undid Me Part 2 — 26:23
12. 12 The Children Of The Public, Introduction and Chapter 1: The Pork-Barrel — 8:45
13. 13 The Children Of The Public, Chapter 2: Where Is The Barrel?; Chapter 3 My Life To Its Crisis — 13:50
14. 14 The Children Of The Public, Chapter 34: The Crisis Part 1 — 39:28
15. 15 The Children Of The Public, Chapter 4: The Crisis Part 2 — 31:46
16. 16 The Children Of The Public, Chapter 5: Fausta's Story — 6:03
17. 17 The Skeleton In The Closet — 29:21
18. 18 Christmas Waits In Boston Part 1 — 12:43
19. 19 Christmas Waits In Boston Part 2 — 15:02
20. 20 Christmas Waits In Boston Part 3 — 16:58

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