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Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Edmond Dantès, on the threshold of a bright career and happy marriage, is imprisoned on a false political charge. After a dramatic escape, he finds the treasure of Monte Cristo, which makes him wealthy, then sets out to seek revenge against his old enemies.
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Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious.
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Lightning-Rod Man, The
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Publisher :
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Author :
Herman Melville
Narrator :
Patrick Lawlor
Length :
21 minutes (Unabridged)
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After spending the summer of 1853 in the Berkshire Mountains, where he supposedly had a real life encounter with a lightning-rod salesman, Melville published “The Lightning-Rod Man."
At the end of this short story, the lightning-rod salesman is exposed for the fraud that he is. However, that will not keep his successors from fanning out to the Middle West, where lightning storms abound and farmers were gullible.
On another level, the story can be interpreted as a confrontation between Good and Evil. Through description and diction, the narrator is understood as a follower of God, someone who believes in The Almighty watching over him.
On the other hand, the lightning-rod man is seen as a negative character, someone who only has faith in the product he's peddling.
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