The Lightning-Rod Man
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The Lightning-Rod Man
Narrated by:
Mark Owen
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Narrated by:
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Mark Owen
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By:
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Herman Melville
About this listen
Chosen for inclusion in William Evans Burton's Cyclopediae of Wit and Humor of 1857, 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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