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A compilation of 10 Christmas Tales, a few of which have been printed before. With an inclusion of a short essay, drafted during the time of the first Christmas revelled by the King of Italy in Rome. The story includes They Saw a Great Light, Christmas Waits in Boston, Alice’s Christmas-Tree, Daily Bread, Stand and Wait, The Two Princes, The Story of Oello, Love is the Whole, Christmas and Rome, The Survivor’s Story, and The Same Christmas in Old England and New. Edward Everett Hale was a writer, historian and Unitarian minister. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents Nathan Hale, business owner and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and Sarah Preston Everett. Edward Hale was a nephew of Edward Everett, the orator and politician, and grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War hero convicted by the British for espionage. Edward Everett Hale was also related with Richard Everett and Helen Keller. Edward was a child genius who revealed out of the ordinary talent in literature. He attended classes at Boston Latin School and at Harvard College. He made his literary collection, was awarded with two Bowdoin prizes and was elected the Class Poet. He ranked second place in his class and then enrolled at Harvard Divinity School. He was authorized to give sermons as a Unitarian minister by the Boston Association of Ministers. Then, he became pastor of the Church of the Unity in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was first celebrated as a writer when he wrote the short story, My Double and How He Undid Me, to the Atlantic Monthly. He thereafter wrote many other stories in the same magazine. His most popular story was, The Man Without a Country, printed in the Atlantic Monthly and proposed to uphold support for the Union cause in the North.
Product ID: 9781776723607
Sku: UF-KHV5-50NJ
