Talk:The Man Without a Country

Similar Event section
Can somebody confirm this? Alternator 19:29, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The closest I have heard was that Jefferson Davis said he didn't want to be considered a citizen of the US. I know that he had his citizenship formally revoked, tho' no one bothered to ever throw him out of the country. Carter formally gave it back to him.FlaviaR 16:54, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Help, please!
Not only did I stupidly forget to sign the edit I made when I added the mention of how many & which movies have been made of this story, I have no idea how to create a link to Internet Movie Database. :-}FlaviaR 16:50, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Young or old
From the HTML version at Project Gutenberg, on page 11: "Philip Nolan was as fine a young officer as there was in the "Legion of the West," as the Western division of our army was then called. When Aaron Burr made his first dashing expedition down to New Orleans in 1805, at Fort Massac, or somewhere above on the river, he met, as the Devil would have it, this gay, dashing, bright young fellow, at some dinner-party, I think. Burr marked him, talked to him, walked with him, took him a day or two's voyage in his flat-boat, and, in short, fascinated him. " (emphasis mine) Perhaps it would be better to adjust the article to outright state that he ages through the text? Hebisddave (talk) 17:52, 16 November 2007 (UTC) '''This is true, but at the very end of the text is it not true that he dies a fragile old man? It seems clear to me that he aged quite a bit, but then again I am only twelve... Dumbass''' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.191.100.39 (talk) 21:34, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Nolan, No Land
"Nolan" and "no land" sound the same in some American dialects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.84.152 (talk) 22:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

¶ I corrected a mistake in the first paragraph. Originally it said the story was published "anonymously", but a letter by Hale written on 22 May 1896 the publisher J. Stilman Smith which was used as a preface in Smith's 1897 edition and some subsequent editions (e.g., the paperback issued by Chapman Billies, 1994), says that: "The first I knew of [the publication of the story] was that I met James Freeman Clarke at an evening party, and he said to me, 'Edward, we have been reading your story and we like it very much.' I said, 'What story?'  He said, 'The story of the Man Without a Country.'  I said, 'How did you know I wrote it?'  Clarke said, 'Because it says so in the index at the end of the number.'"  Hale goes on to say that he and the magazine editor had intended to attribute the story to the fictional Lt. Ingham but the publisher's index-maker had not been informed of this when he compiled the magazine's annual index. Sussmanbern (talk) 15:01, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Adaptations
I remember hearing a radio dramatization which was played over classroom loudspeaker when I was in elementary school in California. This would have been about 1956 to 1958. I suppose it must have been the Decca/Bing Crosby dramatization, but of course no way I can determine that now. This was played for us several times over those years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.27.195.187 (talk) 13:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Correct wording
"a historical…" ,should be, "an historical…"

Sister Geraldine Marie, O.P. SISTERGMW (talk) 22:17, 22 July 2023 (UTC)