The Spectacles

The Spectacles

By Edgar Allan Poe
Michael Caine
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Length1h 2m

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The narrator, 22-year old Napoleon Buonaparte, changes his last name from "Froissart" to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity "resolutely refused to employ them." His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame Eugenie Lalande, a wealthy widow, and promises to introduce the two. He courts her and proposes marriage; she makes him promise that, on their wedding night, he will wear his spectacles… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length1 hr 2 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish

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