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Businessman The (Unabridged)

Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator Michael Troy

Publisher: Bookstream Audiobooks

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Summary

"The Business Man" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments. It was published in February 1840 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story questions the concept of a self-made man.The narrator of the story is Peter Proffit, a "methodical" businessman by his own admission. He says a nurse swung him around when he was a young boy, and he bumped his head against a bedpost. That single event determined his fate: the resulting bump was in the area dedicated to system and regularity, according to phrenology.
Duration: 26 minutes (00:25:56)
Publishing date: 2020-11-27; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —