THE OBLONG BOX by EDGAR ALLAN POE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A men traveling on a sailing vessel from Charleston S.C.to New York becomes intrigued by a fellow traveler's actions regarding a large oblong box he has brought onboard. When the ship runs into trouble during a hurricane, the box becomes an issue.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories in tales this is your host John |
| 0:34.2 | Haggadorn today an interesting story from Edgar Allan Poe called the oblong box |
| 0:40.1 | and I'll give you a little background on what inspired this story. |
| 0:45.0 | In the story, Poe recalled his experience as a soldier stationed to Fort Moultrie many years earlier |
| 0:51.0 | and said his ship's embarkation point from Charleston, South Carolina to New York in this story. |
| 0:57.0 | The Charleston area is also mentioned in Poe's stories, The Gold Bug, and the balloon hoax. |
| 1:04.2 | Just a few months before the publication of the oblong box, |
| 1:07.4 | Poe emigrated to New York by steamship |
| 1:10.0 | and experienced his own voyage. |
| 1:12.4 | His wife Virginia had begun to show signs of illness about two years earlier in 1842. |
| 1:18.0 | The oblong box is based in part on the murder of Samuel Adams by Sam Colt's brother John C. Colt and the story took |
| 1:26.1 | America by storm because Colt was the inventor of Colt firearms. You'll hear of a |
| 1:31.8 | character named Wyatt his name may be derived from Professor Thomas Wyatt, |
| 1:36.7 | a writer whose work Poe translated in the first book of the conjologist. |
| 1:41.2 | And now the oblong box. of the conjologist. |
| 1:43.0 | And now the oblong box by Edgar Ellen Poe. |
| 1:49.0 | Some years ago I engaged passage from Charleston, South Carolina to the city of New York in the fine package ship independence. |
| 1:57.0 | Captain Hardy. |
| 1:58.0 | We were to sail on the 15th of the month of June, weather permitting, and on the 14th, I went on board to arrange some matters in my |
| 2:05.1 | state room. I found that we were to have a great many passengers, including a more than usual |
| 2:10.6 | number of ladies. On the list were several of my acquaintances and |
| 2:15.0 | among other names I was rejoiced to see that of Mr. Cornelius Wyatt a young |
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