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Title: The Balloon Hoax
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator: Cathy Dobson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-10-13
Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks
Genres: Classics, American Literature
Publisher's Summary:
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.
