The lightning-rod man
(2018)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Series:
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2018
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (20 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781974911837 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT12140839, 1974911837 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 12140839
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Mark Owen
Chosen for inclusion in William Evans Burton's Cyclopediae of Wit and Humor of 1857, with an illustration by Henry Louis Stephens, The Lightning-Rod Man was the one Melville tale to be available throughout his lifetime, thanks to reissues of this volume. More a parable than a character-driven story, The Lightning-rod man is a charlatan who tries to profit by selling fearful people lightning-rods during thunderstorms. The narrator has a difficult encounter with the Lightning-Rod man in this story about overcoming fear and superstition
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