| Title | : | The Businessman (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Release | : | 2020-09-22 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Mysteries & Thrillers |
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| 1 | The Businessman (Unabridged) | Edgar Allan Poe |
| "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. |
