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Lightning-Rod Man, The
Author: Herman Melville
Series: The Piazza Tales
Narrator: Mark Owen
Unabridged: 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 06/26/2018
Category: Fiction - Classics
Synopsis
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.