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    The Balloon Hoax
    The Balloon Hoax
    The Balloon Hoax
    Audiobook33 minutes

    The Balloon Hoax

    Written by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    The Balloon Hoax was first published in The Sun newspaper in New York in 1844. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a hot air balloon.

    The story turned out to be a hoax and the paper published a retraction two days later (rumoured to also have been written by Poe himself) admitting the deception.The story ignited a fever of excitement in New York: Poe himself claimed that the Sun building was "besieged" by people wanting copies of the newspaper. "I never witnessed more intense excitement to get possession of a newspaper," he wrote.

    The furore around the story is a testimony to Poe's ability to build up a narrative with such plausible details, that it appears almost inconceivable that it should not be the truth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJun 10, 2013
    ISBN9781467669115
    The Balloon Hoax
    Author

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. The Raven, published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

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      I've heard this narrator before and her voice and delivery is fingernails on a chalkboard.