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The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time by Edward Everett Hale
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Published in 1899, this charming autobiography takes readers back to a time when Boston, the largest city in New England, was still just a typical town of the region. While Hale claims here, "I am certainly not writing my autobiography," he does give a detailed account of being a boy during "the simplicity and ease of a phase of New England life, which has now wholly passed away."
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In Hales' 1897 edition of "The Man Without a Country" he includes a fascinating introduction in which he explains the details of his original ideas for writing the bestseller and the story of its initial publication in The Atlantic. It is this introduction along with the story itself that has been republished here for the interested reader.
In beginning his introduction Hale writes:
"The publisher of this edition of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY asks...
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Part of the noted Epochs of Modern History Series, this account of a pivotal era in English history-1678 to 1697-is engrossing reading for anyone passionate about world history. Historian Edward Hale splendidly relates the course of events around the fall of the Stuarts and the reverberations their troubles brought to England and the continent.
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Lowell (1819-1891) was a leading figure in the popular and family-friendly Fireside School of Poets. Critic, editor, and diplomat, he was also a prominent abolitionist. This 1899 memoir, by a man who knew Lowell well, traces the poet's progress throughout his life-in college and through war and foreign service-as well as providing a glimpse of Boston in the 1840s.
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Here is a charming collection of stories, mostly set in New England in the 1800s, that depict how Christmas was celebrated then.
Seems that Christmas was not always a tree with dozens, if not hundreds, of gifts spread around the tree. Consumerism not being then what it is today, the gift might simply be a letter from a long-missing loved one, or simply the return through a blizzard of a husband who had left only hours ago on a mission of mercy. The...
