Man without a Country: Easy to Read Classics

Edward Everett Hale‏

فروری 2012 · Bring the Classics to Life کتاب 17 · EDCON Publishing Group

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Bring The Classics To Life Series. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Readers will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. Knowledge of Classics is a cultural necessity and these will improve fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through a high Interest / low readability format. Each eBookis divided into 10 short high quality illustrated chapters - Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary - Has been measured by the Fry Readability Formula - Defines and uses in context new vocabulary, prior to each chapter.

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Edward Everett Hale was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1822. He was the grandnephew of Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War hero. He graduated from Harvard in 1839 and became an American author. Edward was also a pastor from 1839 to 1899 and in 1903 became chaplain of the U.S. Senate. He married Emily Baldwin Perkins the niece of a U.S. Senator and they had eight children. His most well known story, The Man Without a Country, did much to strengthen the Union cause in the North. Edward was editor and contributor to many newspapers in his lifetime. He died in Roxbury in 1909.