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Books like The Man Without a Country

Loved The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from short stories, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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    Interpreter of Maladies

    Jhumpa Lahiri · 1999 · Short Stories

    Stories of Indian and Indian-American lives between cultures; a Pulitzer-winning debut of great delicacy.

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    Exhalation

    Ted Chiang · 2019 · Short Stories

    Beautifully reasoned science-fiction stories about time, free will and meaning; cerebral and humane.

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    Our Old Home

    Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · Short Stories

    Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of E

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    Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow

    Washington Irving · 1867 · Short Stories

    In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

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    Tanglewood Tales

    Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1853 · Short Stories

    Tanglewood Tales uses the Greek classics as its source. Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken the most striking and exciting ones and adapted them for children. From the original stories he has selected episo

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    Fairy Tales and Stories

    Hans Christian Andersen · 1850 · Short Stories

    Many of these stories for children are famous the world over. 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Ice Maiden', 'The Red Shoes', 'The Snow Queen', 'Thumbelina', 'The Steadfast Tin S

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    A Tangled Tale

    Lewis Carroll · 1881 · Short Stories

    In the late 19th century, Lewis Carroll—better known these days as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—was also an established mathematician who had published many books and papers in the f

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    The American Claimant

    Mark Twain · 1881 · Short Stories

    The Earl of Rossmore is deeply distressed when an American of no account claims his title--Novelist.

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    Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

    Hans Christian Andersen · 1846 · Short Stories

    Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."

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    Mosses from an Old Manse

    Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1846 · Short Stories

    "The Old Manse" (1846) Birth-Mark (1843) "A Select Party" (1844) Young Goodman Brown (1835) "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844) "Mrs. Bullfrog" (1837) "Fire-Worship" (1843) "Buds and Bird-Voices" (1843) "M

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