Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
Unabridged: 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio
Published: 02/18/2025
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."
Some people are critical of Loss of Breath as schlocky mimicry of the contemporary horror stories of the period. Although others see this as parody, I think Poe was being critical of the developing genre while simultaneously admiring it from afar. The very beginning is about a newly married couple o......more
Edgar Allan Poe’s Loss of Breath is a wonderful satire on post-Civil War medicine and sensationalism in newspapers. The day after his wedding, Mr. Lackobreath verbally abuses his new wife because of love letters between her and their neighbor, Mr. Windenough. Suddenly, he finds that he has lost his......more