An interesting one. "The Balloon Hoax" is one of 15 stories in "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales" from a edition. Fourteen pages. First printed as a news story in the "New York Sun" in It was a fictional account of a crossing of the Atlantic in a lighter-than-air balloon disguised as true/5. The great problem is at length sol THE BALLOON. Two very decided failures, of late It was at this juncture that Mr. Like Sir George Cayley’s balloon. · “The Balloon Hoax” — — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 5: Tales IV, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (, and ) “ The Balloon Hoax ” — — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ().
The great problem is at length sol THE BALLOON. Two very decided failures, of late It was at this juncture that Mr. Like Sir George Cayley's balloon. The Great Balloon Hoax was almost certainly Poe's best work as a prankster. A broadside appeared in the midday issue of the New York Sun on Ap. It included an announcement that the famed European balloonist Thomas Munck Mason had just completed a transatlantic journey in his balloon, the Victoria. The advertisement stated that Mason had departed from England, bound for Paris. The Balloon Hoax by Edgar Allan Poe. ASTOUNDING NEWS BY EXPRESS, VIA NORFOLK!—The Atlantic Crossed in Three Days!—Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying Machine!—Arrival at Sullivan's Island, near Charlestown, S. C., of Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Henson, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, and four others, in the Steering Balloon, Victoria, after a Passage of Seventy-five Hours from Land.
The balloon was brought over the beach (the tide being out and the sand hard, smooth, and admirably adapted for a descent,) and the grapnel let go, which took firm hold at once. The inhabitants of the island, and of the fort, thronged out, of course, to see the balloon; but it was with the greatest difficulty that any one could be made to credit the actual voyage — the crossing of the Atlantic. “The Balloon Hoax” — — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 5: Tales IV, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (, and ) “ The Balloon Hoax ” — — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (). The Great Balloon Hoax was almost certainly Poe’s best work as a prankster. A broadside appeared in the midday issue of the New York Sun on Ap. It included an announcement that the famed European balloonist Thomas Munck Mason had just completed a transatlantic journey in his balloon, the Victoria.
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